The new Parliament will convene for the first time tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. (Credit: Ali Fawaz/Lebanese Parliament)
With less than 24 hours to go before the first session of the new Parliament, scheduled for 11 a.m. tomorrow, MPs belonging to the traditional opposition and those associated with the Oct. 17 uprising are not sitting idly by.Instead, they are trying to get their story straight in view of their first battle with power: the election of the deputy speakerThis is particularly true knowing that the reelection of the current Parliament speaker as the head of legislature is, once again, a foregone conclusion, in the absence of any competition.It is in this context that the protest movement MPs held their meeting yesterday — a move that came two days after the Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil’s announcement of the candidacy of Elias Bou Saab, a Greek Orthodox and FPM MP in Metn, for the vice presidency of Parliament.“We are...
With less than 24 hours to go before the first session of the new Parliament, scheduled for 11 a.m. tomorrow, MPs belonging to the traditional opposition and those associated with the Oct. 17 uprising are not sitting idly by.Instead, they are trying to get their story straight in view of their first battle with power: the election of the deputy speakerThis is particularly true knowing that the reelection of the current Parliament speaker as the head of legislature is, once again, a foregone conclusion, in the absence of any competition.It is in this context that the protest movement MPs held their meeting yesterday — a move that came two days after the Free Patriotic Movement leader Gebran Bassil’s announcement of the candidacy of Elias Bou Saab, a Greek Orthodox and FPM MP in Metn, for the vice presidency of Parliament.“We are...