Former Interior Minister Ziyad Baroud, who played an important role in the drafting of a bill on administrative decentralization in 2014, explained the outline of this text in an interview with This is Beirut. The study of the draft in Parliament stopped in 2019, “maybe for political reasons,” according to Baroud.
While the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil is asking Hezbollah to provide him with guarantees in order to back their presidential candidate Sleiman Frangieh, including administrative and financial decentralization, Baroud stressed that “all political parties should realize that this project is in the interest of all Lebanese people and is not a partisan project.”
“I hope that the discussion is going in this direction, and is not aiming to establish what one can obtain in return,” he added.
