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After Berri asserted that the majority of MPs had voted against giving two laws that would protect the Beirut port silos from demolition expedited status, which would allow the full Parliament to vote on the proposals without having to go through committee approval first, MP Paula Yacoubian (Forces of Change/Beirut I) demanded that the vote be counted again and claimed that most of the MPs voted for giving expedited status to the proposal to protect the port silos. She described the process as “fake” when Berri rejected her claim, while MP Ali Hassan Khalil made his opposition to Yacoubian’s allegations by shouting

An expedited status law proposal is a suggested law that the parliament discusses whether or not it should be worked on at the given point in time. If the expedited status law is approved, it is directly discussed and voted on. If the expedited status law does not pass in Parliament, the law is sent to the parliamentary committees for discussion.