Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called on Sunday for immunizing “the judiciary and achieving its independence as an authority that adheres to the rules of the constitution and the law, away from politicization, discretion, maliciousness, and sectarianism,” on the 78th anniversary of independence and the expiry of the deadline for Lebanese expatriate registration to participate in the parliamentary elections.
He added: "We are concerned with liberating the economy from dependence on monopolies and monopolists, concerned with liberating citizens' livelihood and medicine from black market dealers, concerned with liberating people's deposits and lifelong earnings from banks by legislation and laws that preserve this right, concerned with restoring trust between the citizen and the state and its institutions, and restoring the world’s trust in Lebanon that is committed to fulfilling its constitutional dues on time.”