Berri to Call for Legislative Session Next Week

Speaker Nabih Berri is expected to invite lawmakers for a legislative session next week to discuss the long-stalled wage scale file shall the Joint Parliamentary Committees complete deliberations on the issues, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Thursday.

Berri is expected to schedule the meeting on Wednesday, said the daily.

The Joint Parliamentary Committees approved in a meeting yesterday the new wage scale lists of the armed forces and public school teachers while the thorny issue of funding and reforms was postponed to a Thursday session.

The Speaker emphasized during a meeting with lawmakers a day earlier, that the scale must be approved because it is a right for the people.