Former Prime Minister Najib Mikati giving an interview to AFP in Beirut on Oct. 15, 2024. (Credit: Anwar Amro/AFP)
In a report recently drafted at the request of State Shura Council Head Fadi Elias, council member Mireille Daoud recommended annulling a decision former Prime Minister Najib Mikati made on Dec. 23, 2023. Mikati had decided to not sign the decree promulgating a law to free non-residential properties from rent-controlled regulations and to not publish it in the Official Gazette.This law, although promulgated by his Cabinet — in its caretaker capacity amid a presidential vacancy that allows it to use this prerogative that is normally reserved to the head of state — had been adopted by Parliament on Dec. 15.Mikati justified his refusal to co-sign the law, stating that he was aiming to protect hundreds of schools unable to bear the new rent rates. Read more Thousands of commercial tenants have had the same contracts for decades. That could...
In a report recently drafted at the request of State Shura Council Head Fadi Elias, council member Mireille Daoud recommended annulling a decision former Prime Minister Najib Mikati made on Dec. 23, 2023. Mikati had decided to not sign the decree promulgating a law to free non-residential properties from rent-controlled regulations and to not publish it in the Official Gazette.This law, although promulgated by his Cabinet — in its caretaker capacity amid a presidential vacancy that allows it to use this prerogative that is normally reserved to the head of state — had been adopted by Parliament on Dec. 15.Mikati justified his refusal to co-sign the law, stating that he was aiming to protect hundreds of schools unable to bear the new rent rates. Read more Thousands of commercial tenants have had the same contracts for decades. That...