Report: Three of BDL's vice-governors will not resign, Mansouri under pressure
Three of the Central Bank vice-governors will not resign, while the first vice-governor Wassim Mansouri is being pressured to resign, informed sources told al-Joumhouria newspaper.
The sources added, in remarks published Friday, that a legislative session might be held to provide a legal cover for the vice-governors to spend from the obligatory reserves for a three-month period.
On Thursday, Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati told reporters that everyone should have the needed "awareness" to find a way to secure the temporary loan to maintain financial stability.
Lebanon, which has no president and is ruled by a caretaker government, might also have to go without a central bank chief, if no successor is named for the embattled bank governor, Riad Salameh, 73, who steps down after three decades at the helm at the end of July.
A Cabinet session to appoint a new Central Bank governor was canceled Thursday due to a lack of quorum.
Lebanon's central bank governor is named by cabinet decree for a six-year mandate that can be renewed multiple times. If the position is vacant, the law stipulates that the first vice-governor take over.
The vice-governors had warned that they might resign unless politicians swiftly name an incoming governor. They later presented a financial plan to MPs and to cabinet, asking for the government and parliament's support to continue their work.
"If the first vice-governor resigns, the second vice-governor should take over," Mikati said Thursday.
In case all four vice-governors decide to resign, they would act in caretaker capacity until the appointment of a new governor.
Source: Naharnet
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