Hizbullah and Amal Announce Return to Cabinet
Hizbullah and the Amal Movement on Saturday announced the end of their boycott of Cabinet sessions, citing “citizens’ needs” and “the living situations of the Lebanese.”
Cabinet has not convened since October 14, when a stormy session was held in which the two Shiite parties demanded the removal of Beirut port blast investigator Judge Tarek Bitar over alleged bias.
“The Amal Movement and Hizbullah stress that they will continue to work for the rectification of the judicial course,” the two parties said in a joint statement on Saturday.
“They call on the executive authority to act to rectify the current judicial course and abide by the constitution’s stipulations,” they added.
The two parties also noted that “the political and economic domestic crisis has reached an unprecedented level, with the major collapse in the Lebanese lira exchange rate, the deterioration of the public sector and the plummeting of wages and citizens’ purchase power.”
“Responding to the needs of honorable citizens and heeding the calls of the economic, professional and syndical sectors, and to prevent being accused of obstruction while we are the most keen on Lebanon and its people and social security, we announce our approval to attend the Cabinet sessions dedicated to passing the state budget and discussing the economic recovery plan and everything related to improving the living situations of the Lebanese,” Hizbullah and Amal added.
Prime Minister Najib Miqati had recently announced that it is necessary to hold a Cabinet session to approve the state budget amid Lebanon's negotiations with the International Monetary Fund.
Source: Naharnet
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