Report: FPM minister to file appeal against cabinet decrees

Caretaker Social Affairs Minister Hector Hajjar of the Free Patriotic Movement will file an appeal before the State Shoura Council against the decrees that were issued in the latest caretaker cabinet session, al-Jadeed TV reported on Tuesday.

Speaking to al-Jadeed, the media adviser of caretaker PM Najib Mikati, Fares Gemayel, stressed that “the decrees are constitutional and cannot be appealed.”

“This issue is out of the question and I don’t know why they have nostalgia for wars and problems,” Gemayel added.

FPM chief Jebran Bassil had decried that “around 10 decrees issued by Cabinet were signed in a flagrant way that eliminated the president’s position.”

“They did not only undermine the presidential post, but also the republic, the Lebanese entity and everything related to partnership and the National Pact,” Bassil added.

Mikati and the FPM have been engaged in a war of words over signatures related to governmental decrees amid the ongoing presidential void.

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