Report: No Imminent Cabinet Session, Stances Unchanged
The calls for reactivating Cabinet are falling on deaf ears, a ministerial source said.
“Cabinet has been idle for the past month and a half pending a political decision to resolve the crisis of the investigative judge into the Beirut port blast Tarek Bitar, and accordingly there will not be an imminent Cabinet session,” the source told al-Joumhouria newspaper in remarks published Wednesday.
“The stances have not changed,” the source added.
Cabinet has not convened since October 14, when a political crisis erupted over the investigations of Judge Bitar. Hizbullah and Amal Movement demanded that a decision be taken in Cabinet to remove Bitar over alleged bias, as President Michel Aoun’s camp and other parties said they reject political interference in the judicial authority.
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