The head of the Free Patriotic Movement, MP Gebran Bassil, filed a complaint before the Supervisory Board for the elections, once morest the “Lebanese Forces” and “Lebanese Phalanges” parties, for exceeding the ceilings of electoral spending to a large extent and flagrantly.
Bassil requested that the violators be referred to the competent Public Prosecution, because the description of financial and criminal crimes applies to their proven violations.
In the complaint, he pointed to the proliferation of advertisements for the “battalions and forces” parties to the extent that their apparent real costs were exposed, and confirmed that they had exceeded the permissible spending ceiling, noting that it was unreasonable for this amount of advertisements to remain without the spending ceiling in isolation from the correctness of the account data being submitted, and with emphasis On the great disparity in the interest of the troops over the battalions.