Two Amal MPs, Ghazi Zaiter and Ali Hassan Khalil, filed a recusal lawsuit in opposition to Choose Tarek Bitar, the lead Beirut port blast investigator, earlier than the Felony Courtroom of Cassation. The 2 lawmakers, who’re suspects within the Beirut Port explosion and have been reelected as MPs final yr, cited “professional suspicion” as the […]
Impartial MPs Melhem Khalaf and Najat Saliba have confirmed that they’re holding a sit-in contained in the Lebanese parliament and won’t be leaving till a president is elected. That is in protest to the failure to elect a president for the eleventh time in virtually 3 months. Lebanon has been with out a president since […]
About 8 MPs had been in a position to stand with William Noun contained in the State Safety facility the place he was detained. State safety stopped letting anybody in, nonetheless. The precise MPs that made it in are nonetheless not clear. In the meantime, MPs Alain Aoun and Simon Abi Ramia, who belong to […]
The Change MPs are attempting to problem the present nomination of Lebanese Forces-Backed Michel Mouawad for President by selling the candidacy of former MP Salah Honein. The group sees Honein as “a robust, reformist candidate who has not been concerned in corruption.” They imagine Honein has the power to unite the opposition’s votes, in contrast […]