Cabinet Adopts Draft Rental Law Amendments, Miqati Hails Parliament Confidence
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The cabinet on Friday endorsed draft amendments to the rental law, as Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed in his opening remarks that the vote of confidence granted Thursday to his government by parliament “must be a motive to show more solidarity among its members.”
Following three days of heated parliamentary debate, the government on Thursday survived a vote of no confidence in the 128-member parliament after receiving 63 votes. Only three opposition lawmakers withheld their confidence from government amid a walkout by March 14 MPs.
“Some speeches crossed the boundaries of responsible and constructive opposition, but some of the remarks, information and ideas proposed by MPs must be taken into consideration and must be mulled and followed up by the ministers,” Miqati said.
He stressed “cooperation between the executive and legislative authorities,” calling on ministers “not to be affected by the criticism addressed to them, even if it crossed the boundaries of logic sometimes.”
Miqati urged the ministers “to respond by showing further responsible attitude towards the proposed plans.”
“The government has a lot of work to accomplish, such as the challenges of state budget, parliamentary elections, administrative appointments and the issues of oil and electricity,” Miqati added.
“We are confident that the government will be once again at the level of the lawmakers’ confidence and I hail the ministers’ responses and stress that the government is performing its duties,” he went on to say.
21 April 2012, 05:41
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Naharnet and OLJ, it would be nice if someone took the bother to explain what the new law is about! Usual journalism in Lebanon: So and so met and discussed something about something! Thanks for a very useful piece of information!
21 April 2012, 06:16
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LOL loveandpeace.. we read the title and we search the body of the article for something related to the title but we find nothing. It is not usual journalism in Lebanon. It is just Naharnet genious.
21 April 2012, 07:48
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what is the new law about rentals.I understood nothing about the new law.
thank you for clarifications
21 April 2012, 11:22
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a major issue i see with this however is , do we have an adequate tennancy tribunal system in place to handle the overflow of claims that no doubt will follow from tennants and landlords accusing each other of wrong doings,non payment ect? if this is not enforceable and beauocracy free we may as well not have a law passed. Also on a good point, this may proide an indirect economic stimulus as it will create some work with all the restorations. Only problem here however is will this money stay in lebanon or go back home with all the syrian labour we have..That is a seperate argument all together :)
21 April 2012, 12:41
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are they going to discuss also the protection of tenants with low income? will they be forced to leave beirut because they won t be able to afford new rents? will the new rents be controlled or any owner will be free to set the price as he wishes? are they going to force all the poor in beirut to leave and only those who can afford a rent in the city will stay?
will the state offices, which are rented under the old law, be affected?
i guess this new law , even if we need one, will give way to a new jungle law where anyone will do anything, pay or leave...
21 April 2012, 18:58
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All they need to do is to come up with a law similar to the new one we have except to give it a maturity date 3 or 4 years from approval of the law. This way the tenants will try to work a new contract with the owner or start investing on a down payment to buy a new apartment. This way there would be a demand for new construction in the country, which in turn drastically improve the economy and get them to have their own owned apartments.
21 April 2012, 19:44
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The free market system will dictate prices. It is not the responsibility of individual citizens to subsidies low income folks. It is the responsibility of the Government however to eradicate poverty and provide subsidized housing to low income folks.
