Parliament Bureau Refuses Putting Spending Bill on Session’s Agenda
Members of parliament’s bureau refused to put an urgent draft-law on the allocation of LL11.561 trillion to cover the expenses of state institutions in 2012 on the agenda of a legislative session next week, An Nahar daily reported on Thursday.
A meeting held on Wednesday between the bureau’s members led to the rejection to put the cabinet’s bill on the agenda of the two-day parliamentary session next Monday, it said.
According to the newspaper, Speaker Nabih Berri will use his prerogatives to propose the bill from outside the agenda.
The parliamentary session’s agenda includes however 33 draft-laws, including a proposal to employ Electricite du Liban’s contract workers and the signing of agreements with the World Bank.
The cabinet decided to allocate the extra-budgetary spending earlier this month after weeks of wrangling between its different members.
The new allocations will be financed with the issuance of treasury bonds if parliament approves the bill.
But even if there was no quorum at the legislature, the bill will go into force because Berri will send it to President Michel Suleiman to use his prerogatives and sign it into law.
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