Berri Postpones Legislative Session Anew over Lack of Quorum
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.
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