Draft agenda of cabinet session sent to ministers

The General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers on Wednesday sent ministers a memo informing them of the draft agenda of Cabinet’s upcoming session ahead of setting a date for it, state-run National News Agency said.

The move comes “based on a request from the (caretaker) prime minister and in line with articles 62 and 64 of the constitution,” the General Secretariat said.

Caretaker PM Najib Mikati has met with Speaker Nabih Berri’s political aide, Ali Hassan Khalil, and Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s aide, Hussein al-Khalil to discuss limiting Cabinet’s agenda to two main items regarding the electricity file, al-Jadeed TV said.

Al-Jadeed added that Berri is in favor of a caretaker Cabinet meeting while Hezbollah supports the session “in principle” but considers that its legal path is "incomplete."

The Free Patriotic Movement has repeatedly warned against holding any caretaker cabinet session during presidential vacuum, arguing that any decree issued would require the signatures of all ministers.

The Movement’s ministers had boycotted a session held on December 5 and described its resolutions as unconstitutional.