Cabinet to Start Dealing with 1,500 Issues Starting Thursday
A packed agenda awaits cabinet ministers next week as they are expected to hold two sessions per week after they received parliament’s vote of confidence on Thursday.
Al-Liwaa daily said Saturday that more than 1,500 files are awaiting approval by the cabinet following a five-month deadlock that stopped all government work.
Ministerial sources said that the cabinet would be compelled to hold sessions twice a week in addition to daily meetings that Miqati would hold with the ministers to solve economic, electricity, water and telecommunications problems.
The first session that will be held at Baabda palace on Thursday following the vote of confidence is expected to renew the mandate of Central Bank governor Riyad Salameh, and appoint the army chief of staff, who is most likely Brig. Gen. Walid Selman, and Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim as director-general of the General Security Department.
Ibrahim is the current assistant of the head of the army intelligence and the director-general of the presidential palace.
An Nahar newspaper said that the cabinet’s priority was to focus on the administrative work in addition to economic and financial work.
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