Cabinet resumes discussing much delayed state budget

Cabinet convene Tuesday to resume the discussion of the 2023 state budget.

Last month, the ministers received the budget draft law from the Finance Ministry and cabinet started successive sessions to discuss and approve it.

Mired in a crippling economic crisis since 2019, Lebanon has been governed by a caretaker cabinet for more than a year and without a president for more than eight months.

The FPM ministers have been boycotting the caretaker cabinet sessions, claiming that cabinet can not convene without a president.

Last year, parliament passed the 2022 budget in September as debates over the customs exchange rate delayed the budget approval amid various dollar exchange rates functioning across the country.

Cabinet will convene again on Thursday to resume the discussion.