FPM to Hold Talks with al-Mustaqbal over Parliamentary Deadlock
A delegation from the Change and Reform Parliamentary bloc will hold talks with al-Mustaqbal MPs on Thursday in Nejmeh Square in an attempt to reach a breakthrough over the parliamentary standstill.
According to An Nahar newspaper published on Monday, the meeting comes in light of Free Patriotic Movement's initiative to contact various parliamentary blocs to end the ongoing rift.
In October, the FPM, which is led by MP Michel Aoun, announced that it will hold talks with various parliamentary blocs to reactivate the work of the parliament and the legislative sessions.
The FPM bloc has boycotted previous calls by Speaker Nabih Berri to attend legislative sessions over the speaker's failure to include his bloc's items on the session's agenda.
On October 23, a two-day parliamentary session was postponed for the sixth time over lack of quorum amid sharp rift between the March 14 alliance and Speaker Nabih Berri on its constitutionality.
The session was postponed to November 20.
The controversial legislative session is set to discuss 45 items on its agenda, the same session that has been boycotted for five times since July over differences on whether the parliament can convene amid a resigned government or not.
The previous sessions were boycotted by the March 14 coalition, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati and Aoun's bloc.
Miqati and the March 14 alliance argue that the parliament can only discuss urgent items amid a resigned cabinet.
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