Public Actions

At a session Tuesday, the cabinet rejected a bill dating from 2018 to curtail the mandate of the public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation, a role currently held by Judge Ghassan Oueidat. According to several local media outlets, this proposal has been referred to Parliament. The bill in question was presented four years ago by Free Patriotic Movement MP Ziad Aswad, and if passed would remove the public prosecutor’s power to make the final call in cases in which a higher authority in the Lebanese administration rejects the prosecution of one of its employees.