REPORT: Constitutional Council says will deal with challenges as per effective norms

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REPORT: Constitutional Council says will deal with challenges as per effective norms
Head of the Constitutional Council Issam Sleiman said on Wednesday that members of the council will deal with any challenge against the extension of the parliament's term according to effective norms.

In a press conference, Sleiman told reporters that “any challenge will be discussed in the presence of all the council's members.”

Last year, the Constitutional Council failed to meet to discuss an appeal submitted by the Free Patriotic Movement MPs due to the absence of members close to Speaker Nabih Berri and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt, who both backed the extension.

The FPM had challenged the first term extension in June 2013 before the Constitutional Council and vowed to appeal the latest extension after lawmakers agreed to extend the legislature's mandate until 2017.

The extension decision was met with popular dismay. It was boycotted by FPM lawmakers and the Kataeb party.

Lebanon has been without a president since May, when President Michel Sleiman's six-year mandate ended without a successor.

“The political rift had an important impact on the work of the council but it never stopped carrying out its tasks,” Sleiman stressed.

He noted that its members are “keen to preserve the Constitutional Council and extend its jurisdictions.”

Sleiman concluded by revealing that a regional conference will be held in Beirut on November 14 and 15 to assess laws in the Arab countries.


For more details, watch Bassam Abou Zeid's report in the video above

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