REPORT: Lebanese Cabinet holds session despite boycott of FPM, Tachnag minsters

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2016-08-25 | 04:21
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REPORT: Lebanese Cabinet holds session despite boycott of FPM, Tachnag minsters

A Cabinet session was held Thursday at the Grand Serail under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Tammam Salam despite the boycott of Free Patriotic Movement and Tachnag Party ministers.

 

Following the meeting, Information Minister Ramzi Jreij held a news conference saying that all controversial topics were postponed due to the absence of FPM and Tachnag ministers.

 

He announced that the Cabinet had given Agriculture Minister Akram Chehayeb the right to negotiate over the waste management crisis in order to ensure that trash will not return to the streets.

 

For his part, Industry Minister Hussein Hajj Hassan told reporters that him and Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mohammad Fneish did not participate in any discussions and called on the government to postpone ​the meeting amid the absence of two main Christian components.

 
Prior to the session, Sports and Youth Minister Abdel Motaleb al-Hennawi said that he agreed with Labor Minister Sejaan Azzi on considering that today’s session is a “normal one," adding that they will tackle 127 items.”
 
“The session is constitutional in terms of number and quality, especially quality,” he added.
 
As for Minister of the Displaced Alice Chabtini, she noted that the FPM is “exaggerating its representative size,” adding that quality “is more important than quantity.”
 
In June, the Kataep Party resigned from government.
 
On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, who is also head of the FPM, declared that the party’s ministers will boycott the Cabinet session to express their objection to the extension of senior military chiefs’ mandates.
 
Last week, Defense Minister Samir Moqbel extended the term of Major General Mohammad Kheir, the secretary-general of the Higher Defense Council, by one year, ​despite FPM ministers’ opposition during last week’s Cabinet session.
 
 
For more details, watch the full report in the video above.

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