The Lebanese House Speaker, Nabih Berri, has summoned the Parliament for two consecutive sessions on Wednesday and Thursday, to discuss and endorse the 2018 draft state budget. The announcement came after Speaker Berri held consultations with the Parliament’s Bureau on the agenda of upcoming parliamentary sessions.
Member of Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc, Sayyed Nawwaf Al-Mousawi, blasted the political rhetoric which utilizes the electoral event to distort the image of the Resistance, stressing that such a speech condemns who adopts it, not the addressee. Sayyed Al-Mousawi noted that huge amounts of money in Baalbek-Hermel electoral zone ...