Unprecedented Budget Proposals: Lebanon’s Political Turmoil and the State Employees’ Salary Issue

2023-06-16 13:27:14

The head of the “Lebanese Forces” party, Samir Geagea, tweeted, on his account via “Twitter”, writing: “It is a strange thing to see proposals for laws stipulating the opening of appropriations in the budget before it is ratified, not even before it is submitted to Parliament, and of course this heresy has not been witnessed.” Lebanon, nor any country in the world, and history has not recorded anything like it.

He said: “All that is intended by these proposals, which their owners invoke the issue of the salaries of state employees, lies in going to a legislative session, and thus opening the parliament for legislative work, at a time when everyone knows that the task of parliament at this stage is electoral only, not not”.

Geagea continued, “And if some say that the theory of the electoral mission falls due to the length of the presidential vacuum, then this is some who repeatedly undertake the process of obstructing the presidential elections, and the most recent evidence is what we witnessed in the June 14th session.”

And he continued, “As for the salaries of state employees, the question that arises, while we are in the sixth month of the year 2023: Why hasn’t the government yet approved the 2023 budget?”

He added, “The practical solution to the issue of salaries of state employees is much simpler than what is being promoted, as it requires the government to take a decision through which it gives an increase to the employees’ pensions with an advance, with a commitment on its part to legalize it in the appropriate circumstances.”

Geagea concluded, “Therefore, this is the shortest and clearest way to deal with the matter, and not go to ‘acrobatics’ whose aim is to open the parliament for legislative action in light of the presidential vacuum.”

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