Berri calls for Parliament session over confidence in Bou Habib

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri called Tuesday for a general session on Thursday to discuss withdrawing confidence from Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib.

The Lebanese Forces MPs had called last week on parliament to withdraw confidence from Bou Habib over accusations related to the distribution of polling stations abroad.

"Expats must be distributed on the polling stations that are geographically closer to them," LF chief Samir Geagea said, accusing Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil and "his team at the Foreign Ministry" of committing "a crime against expats abroad, instead of facilitating their voting process."

As Geagea asked for withdrawing confidence from the FPM-backed minister, Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat asked Saturday for the dismissal of Energy Minister Walid Fayyad, sarcastically accusing him of wandering through capitals, restaurants and nightclubs.