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Non-Binding Consultations to Form Government Held in Berri’s Absence

This is Beirut, 15/01 22:04 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Amal Free Patriotic Movement Hezbollah Nawaf Salam government

Wednesday’s non-binding parliamentary consultations began with the notable absence of Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, who was expected to meet with Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam before the beginning of discussions with MPs. Instead, consultations were launched by Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab, who commended Salam’s ...

What Form of Government for Nawaf Salam?

Bassam Abou Zeid, 15/01 17:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Joseph Aoun Nawaf Salam government

The Lebanese, as well as the international community, notably the five nations making up the Quintet Committee (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, France, the United States and Qatar), are closely monitoring the formation of a government to be led by Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam. Informed political sources maintain that the government’s formation is ...

Opposition MPs to Nominate Fouad Makhzoumi to Form Next Government

This is Beirut, 11/01 22:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Joseph Aoun Fouad Makhzoumi Opposition nomination Government

Opposition MPs announced Saturday evening their decision to nominate MP Fouad Makhzoumi to form the next government at the binding parliamentary consultations with President Joseph Aoun scheduled on Monday. “In line with the new phase in Lebanon, launched by the President of the Republic, General Joseph Aoun, in his swearing-in speech, and in ...

Choueifat Municipality: Dumping Rubble at Costa Brava Requires Environmental Impact Study

This is Beirut, 2024-12-30 13:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Environement Government Costa Brava

In a press release issued on Monday, the municipality of Choueifat expressed its reservations about the Cabinet's decision to dump war rubble at the Costa Brava landfill site, stressing “the need for the state, the government and all parties concerned to respect international environmental standards and all conventions in force”. The ...

The Issue of Enforced Disappearances on the Council of Ministers' Agenda

This is Beirut, 2024-12-12 23:00 - Reading : less than a minute

Lebanese detainees in Syria Government

Both issues of people reported missing during the war and Lebanese detainees in Syria will be on the agenda of the next government meeting. No date has yet been set for the meeting, which is due to take place next week, but a 35-point agenda has already been distributed to the ministers. The agenda includes two items related to the issue of ...

Syria: Mohammed al-Bashir Appointed Head of Transitional Government

This is Beirut, 2024-12-10 16:42 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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The Syrian rebels now in power in Damascus have appointed Mohammed al-Bashir as head of a transitional government that will be in place until March 1, state media said Tuesday. "The general command has tasked us with running the transitional government until March 1," said a statement attributed to Bashir on state television's ...

Mawlawi: Draft Law to Rebuild the Country Has Been Approved

This Is Beirut, 2024-12-07 13:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Lebanon Tyre Government

Caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi announced that “a draft law for the reconstruction of the country has been approved by the Council of Ministers,” before specifying that this draft will be submitted to Parliament for approval. Speaking from the city of Tyre, where the Council of Ministers meeting was being held, Mawlawi added, “We ...

France's Unprecedented Political and Institutional Crisis

Ali A. Hamadé, 2024-12-06 18:20 - Reading : 8 minute(s)

Emmanuel Macron France Government crisis

Since Wednesday, France has been experiencing its most severe political and institutional crisis in over six decades. For the first time since 1962, a motion of censure passed in the National Assembly resulted in the resignation of Prime Minister Michel Barnier. President Emmanuel Macron, who “acknowledged” the gravity of the ...

Audi Slams Parliament: 'It Is a Mere Reflection of Government'

This Is Beirut, 2023-12-10 14:09 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Audi government

The Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Beirut, Bishop Elias Audi, wondered on Sunday “how can parliament, which does not convene, hold the government accountable when it is itself a mere reflection of the Executive?” He also asked how accountability can exist without a real separation of powers. “Hence, the necessity for electing a president as ...

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