Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Thursday stressed that preparations for the May 15 parliamentary elections were on track, and that the Foreign Minister was studying the recent remarks on the expatriates’ voting process.

Speaking at the beginning of a Cabinet session at the Grand Serail, Mikati asked the Minister of Interior to follow up on the reported electoral violations with the Supervisory Commission for Elections (SCE).

Tackling the capital controls, Mikati said the law should have been endorsed on the first day of the crisis. “People confused the capital controls with the preservation of deposits,” he added, highlighting the necessity to approve the legislations requested by the International Monetary Fund to unlock the aid program.

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon