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MPs reject two draft laws on lifting banking secrecy and ministerial immunity
Lawmakers Wednesday rejected a raft of draft laws and reforms as hundreds of protesters gathered across the country to condemn the deteriorating living conditions Lebanon is suffering from.
The legislative session was brought to an abrupt end after quorum was lost. Speaker Nabih Berri announced that there would be no afternoon session Wednesday, or any Thursday sessions as had been planned.
Early on in the morning session MPs rejected a draft law to stop the controversial Bisri Dam project – a move that independent MP Paula Yacoubian described as “very unfortunate” on her Twitter account. The draft law will now be reviewed by parliamentary committees for further study. Lawmakers did the same for a draft law on lifting banking secrecy, and to a draft law on lifting ministerial immunity.