Report: March 14 Forces to Hold Expanded Meeting ahead of Legislative Session

Preparations are underway among political powers to attend the legislative session that Speaker Nabih Berri is pressing to hold, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Thursday.

Sources from the March 14 alliance said that the camp is expected to hold an “expanded meeting” of its members before Monday “in an attempt to come up with a unified stance over the agenda of the session.”

The parliament's bureau is set to convene on next week to devise the legislative session agenda.

The session itself will likely be held at the beginning of November.

Its agenda will most likely include draft laws on international loans and grants, as well as affairs linked to the economic situation in the country, prominent parliamentary sources told the daily.

Berri had on Wednesday urged rival politicians to agree to attend a legislative session “as the current situation can no longer persist as it is threatening the collapse of the state and increasing dangers on the economy.”

His visitors told the daily that he is making the necessary preparations to hold the session and he will chair a meeting of the parliament bureau on Tuesday to approve its agenda.

M.T.

D.A.