Berri Postpones Legislative Session Anew over Lack of Quorum
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Speaker Nabih Berri postponed for the seventh time on Wednesday a two-day parliamentary session over lack of quorum.
The controversial legislative session was postponed to December 18.
The session that Berri has been calling for for the past few months is set to discuss 45 items on its agenda, the same session that has been boycotted for six times since July over differences on whether the parliament can convene amid a resigned government or not.
The Free Patriotic Movement kicked off recently a series of meetings with political powers in Lebanon aimed at ending the country's deadlock.
The block had held talks with the Mustaqbal bloc and the Phalange party and a meeting is yet to be scheduled with the Lebanese Forces.
The previous sessions were boycotted by the March 14 coalition, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati and FPM leader MP Michel Aoun's bloc.
However, Aoun's Change and Reform bloc agreed last month to reactivate the work of the parliament “as there are social priorities that need to be addressed” by attending the sixth session.
Aoun's bloc has boycotted previous calls by Berri to attend legislative sessions over the speaker's failure to include his bloc's items on the session's agenda.
Miqati and the March 14 alliance argue that the parliament can only discuss urgent items amid a resigned cabinet.
20 November 2013, 11:36
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"The previous sessions were boycotted by the March 14 coalition, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati and FPM leader MP Michel Aoun's bloc.
Aoun's bloc has boycotted previous calls by Berri to attend legislative sessions over the speaker's failure to include his bloc's items on the session's agenda."
I thought Aoun never boycotted the sessions:)
20 November 2013, 13:01
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Oh.... you brought tears to my eyes! very touching and inspired hullabaloo by an ex militia mercenary.
20 November 2013, 15:16
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Wow profile! What an insightful comment! Let's assume he's an ex militia mercenary, do you think he was so because he was blood thirsty or because at one point or another he had to. Who are you to judge?
20 November 2013, 14:53
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I am sick of reading the same story. Lack of Quorum! Unbelievable. They are failing the "Lebanese" people an failing miserably at their job.
I don't even believe in their legitimacy. How many parliaments in the world cote to extend their own term? Honestly people why do we keep up with this rubbish?
We are the definition of a failed state. Partition please.
20 November 2013, 15:13
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the1phoenix we are the product of a failed experiment. What you say is true but since Lebanon's independence the country has witnessed turmoil in practically every decade. Why is that? Why does this not happen anywhere else? Because we as a country simply cannot coexist. Too many ideological differences. Way to many. I don't care if people disagree because deep inside they know I am right.
Shame, a real shame.
20 November 2013, 16:18
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@the1phoenix I do not say this because I have any hatred towards the other side. On the contrary, I say this because I think if we do, then at least each side can determine its own future and path it would like to follow or at least attempt to. At the moment coexistence is bringing nothing but hatred and war. This has been happening for years. 70 years in fact. What exactly unites us in Lebanon? Nothing, absolutely nothing. Our aspirations are different in every way. Let's be honest with ourselves.
20 November 2013, 16:58
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Exactly the1phoenix. I would wish them the best in their endeavours. I honestly do, but I do not want to be dragged into the abyss everytime the other sides decide we should. If they want to go there then be my guest. I would much rather concentrate on building our country, improve the economy in a way that it could sustain itself, improve social benefits and the health sector, invest in technology and science, encourage art and cultural prosperity and invest in properly training security personel so we can have stability rather than complete chaos. I couldn't care less about any other country's internal affairs. I guarantee the1phoenix that no one on our side does either but right now we are stuck on a ride others are steering and we are going no where but doom. Yes I want partition and I am not even ashamed of saying it.
20 November 2013, 17:32
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Exactly thefact. What democracy? Democracy in Lebanon is a joke. A failed state nothing more and nothing less
