The Parliament resumed Thursday its legislative sessions, which were kicked off on Wednesday, under the chairmanship of Speaker Nabih Berri.
The council passed the rent law and the law pertaining to the right of access to information presented by MP Ghassan Moukheiber, while sources stated that the most important item on the session’s agenda is the one pertaining to the rent law.
On the sidelines of the meeting, Information Minister Melhem Riachi and head of the Media and and Communications Committee MP Hassan Fadlallah held a meeting with Speaker Berri where they agreed to discuss with PM Saad Hariri the option of separating the case of the contract workers of the Information Ministry from the case of the contract workers of other public administrations.
The Information Ministry’ contractors had held a sit-in outside the Parliament to call for passing the draft law presented to the cabinet in 2007.
In turn, Prime Minister Saad Hariri hoped to be given a period of 10 days to review the draft law pertaining to the issue of contract workers as a whole.
For his part, Information Minister Melhem Riachi stressed that later today or within ten days, a decision will be issued to separate the case of the contractors of the Information Ministers from the case of the rest of the contractors.
In a statement to LBCI, Kataeb party chief said that “the current events can be described as a masked extension to the parliament through the adoption of the 60s law.”