Berri Calls for Parliament Bureau, Finance and Justice Committees to Convene
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri Wednesday called the Parliament Bureau to convene at Ain el-Tineh on Friday afternoon.
Berri also called the Finance committee and the Justice Committee to hold a joint session on Monday at the Parliament.
The joint session will study an urgent draft law aiming to put exceptional and temporary restrictions on bank transfers.
Media reports meanwhile said that there could be a parliamentary “settlement” to the crisis resulting from the Shiite duo’s insistence on Judge Tarek Bitar’s removal.
Under the reported settlement, the accused ex-PM and former ministers would be referred to a parliamentary panel of inquiry and a “bargain” would be made with the Free Patriotic Movement under which it would provide a “Christian” cover to a parliamentary session that would approve the panel, the reports said.
The FPM would in return get “electoral gains, especially as to the amendments of the electoral law and the six expat seats,” the reports added.
Source: Naharnet
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