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While the people of the country continue to bury their heads in the sand and continue to play on the edge of the abyss despite all the tragedies of the Lebanese people, the head of the Progressive Socialist Party, Walid Jumblatt, maintains his frankness with the Lebanese, declaring matters by their names and their truth, in the political as well as the economic crisis, passing through the file demarcation of the borders to the concerns. living.
Jumblatt warned that the period is short, and it is a month before the vacuum, so let us complete the largest possible number of the IMF’s conditions book, and then prevent the country from collapsing further, saying: “The missiles are there, but will the Lebanese eat missiles? We must improve purchasing power, stop the economic collapse, and the Central Bank bleeds, and stop Support for non-essential matters.
While he called for not to be distracted by regional axes and to be content with reforming electricity, capital control, progressive tax and tax on marine property and wealth, he spoke frankly regarding the file demarcation of the border, saying: “Iran tells the Americans that it is difficult for Israel to explore for oil and gas in Karish without our consent, just as Russia may It sends messages to the West that if you do not want Russian gas, it is forbidden to extract gas from the Mediterranean.”
On the line of presidential elections, Jumblatt stressed that “the candidates for the presidential elections must present political, economic and tax programs. If we are not convinced, we may not vote for anyone.”
Meanwhile, in the political diaries, the House of Representatives held its first legislative session yesterday following the parliamentary elections, approving a bill related to banking secrecy, a loan agreement with the World Bank to import wheat, in addition to a number of agreements and bills. The Supreme Council was also elected to try presidents and ministers.
Member of the Development and Editing Bloc, MP Qassem Hashem, pointed out that “the most important bill that was approved was that related to banking secrecy, because it allows totalitarianism in terms of lifting this secrecy and includes all public sector employees, associations and parties, and not a specific category of state employees.”
In a connection with the electronic newspaper, Al-Anbaa, Hashem indicated that “it is the first time that banking secrecy has been raised to this level in decades, and the draft law is in line with the vision of the International Monetary Fund and does not oppose the Lebanese laws in force, but rather go along with them.”
He also touched on the agreement with the World Bank, stating that its goal is “to address the loaf crisis, and following it is signed by the President of the Republic and published in the Official Gazette, Lebanon can communicate with the Bank and translate it on the land of the author.”
On another line, news spread that the Public Administration Employees Association may end its strike today, Wednesday, following the benefits that the state decided to grant, which is an additional salary, with a production allowance between 150 and 300 and a transfer allowance of 95 thousand pounds for each day of attendance, provided that the employee attends Three days a week.
According to these calculations, the income of the employee who receives the lowest income in the public administration (one million pounds), becomes 5 million pounds per month, and this amount increases as the salary increases.
The head of the association, Nawal Nasr, pointed out that “the state’s contributions are still insufficient, and they are in total a transportation allowance, as some employees cost 400 and 500 thousand pounds per day to reach the work center, and the demands related to education and hospitalization were not taken into account, and therefore there is no new has been presented.”
In an interview with the online newspaper “Al-Anbaa”, she rejected this principle of offerings, and considered it to deceive the employees, stressing the continuation of the strike.
And regarding the rumors regarding the possibility of pressure through the strike to pass taxes such as customs dollars and others to increase the state’s imports, Nasr denied this talk, and stressed that the imports are there and the amounts are insured, and there is no need to pass taxes to finance the increases and contributions.
Consequently, the rams will remain the same, which will further complicate the scene on the eve of the end of the covenant and entering a vacuum whose extent and repercussions at all levels are difficult to predict.
