Report: Berri Makes Progress in Bridging March 8-14 Differences in Parliamentary Committee
Speaker Nabih Berri has made major progress in bridging sharp differences between the March 8 and 14 members of parliament’s finance and budget committee after the opposition MPs boycotted it.
An Nahar daily said Sunday that Berri will head a meeting of the committee on Wednesday after he exerted strong efforts to revive the work of the group.
The March 14-led opposition lawmakers boycotted the committee in November in protest of comments by its head MP Ibrahim Kanaan against Al-Mustaqbal bloc leader MP Fouad Saniora.
Kanaan, a member of Michel Aoun’s Change and Reform bloc, had accused Saniora of embezzlement during his tenure as finance minister from 1992 to 1998 and from 2000 to 2004.
The March 14 lawmakers walked out of the committee after al-Mustaqbal MP Jamal al-Jarrah criticized Kanaan’s accusations against Saniora and stressed the boycott will continue until the March 8 MP issues an apology.
Al-Jarrah accused Kanaan of spreading lies about Saniora, saying that his claims are baseless and lack objectivity.
He said the Change and Reform MP was abusing his position as head of the committee to score political gains.
Before heading the meeting of the committee at 1:30 pm Wednesday, Berri will preside over another meeting for the heads of parliamentary committees and their secretaries, An Nahar said.
As Safir daily reported Saturday the speaker will warn lawmakers that if any MP abstains from attending more than three committee sessions, he would be considered resigned and replaced with another in accordance with parliament’s by-laws.
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This squabbling between Slash, Slash, Slash, Slash, and Cookie_Monster makes the case again for US intervention. The US has a long history of successfully mediating disputes between slaves and slave-owners.
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guys, since u both agree that aoun and berri and their relatives and all bunch of thieves, y u argue, insult each others...?
who is aoun? a former commander at the lebanese forces (previously known as Gabriel, at the age of Sheikh Bachir alla yerhamo)
when Sheikh bachir died, he moved out "as the others" to find a place for himself and it was the lebanese army. he sold his country, his solders and his values in the name of freedom, again to find a place for himself as a leader.
geagea better? hobeika better?
who is berri? worse than aoun in fighting his country men, killing and stealing!!!
who are the rest of our leaders? hariri (both), nasrallah, amine gmayel...
each one worse than the other!!!
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so dear all, please stop considering urselves lebanese before u admit that alllll the leaders u follow are equally shit and before u admit that all lebanese have equally the same rights and before u realize that wasting ur time insulting and fighting each others as u were doing for ages will just put us (the lebanese) at the back of the truck!
get out of lebanon just for few days and listen to others opinion about us, it is a shame! and a shame it is true!!!
bridging what?, 8 and 14 are the same garbage:the people are still holding becose they are devided in tribes and sects..
no electricity..
no mazout..
30 pct othe budget is going to army who is playing the role of traffic police wether internally or at the borders...even buildings are falling, we are kept just to watch the parade of the lebanese politicians with their limousines,bodyguards,valentino suits.. and free luxury trips...and u add to that our religious"leaders"and their empty sermons...wel ati a'azam..and the lebanese are responsible for letting this mascarade go on.
why we are paying taxes?????????????????????