Report: Committee to Draft Electoral Law to be Formed Wednesday

Fuente: 
Naharnet
Fecha de publicación: 
17 Nov 2015

Speaker Nabih Berri has called on the Parliament Bureau on Wednesday to form the committee charged with drafting a new electoral law within a two-month period, the March 14 alliance was informed according to al Joumhouria daily on Tuesday.

The committee will be charged with drafting the law and to find common factors within the existing laws within a two-month period.

Head of the Kataeb party MP Sami Gemayel will not take part in the parliamentary dialogue session to be held today, as he denounces the failure of the cabinet to convene in the wake of the terror attacks that hit the country.

The 10th national dialogue session will be held at noon at Ain el-Tineh.

According to the daily, an agreement has been reached and that the March 14 alliance will continue with prioritizing the presidential elections that pave way to resolve other pressing issues.

On the other hand, today's dialogue session is set to address the cabinet paralysis as it went dysfunctional over the controversial trash file, unnamed ministerial sources told An Nahar daily.

Twin suicide bombings rocked the area of Bourj al-Barajneh south of Beirut on Thursday killing at least 46 people and wounding more than 200.

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