{"id":56122,"date":"2021-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/?guid=009e2b123fe2d41d1117fa754d231216"},"modified":"2021-08-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T00:00:00","slug":"bassil-we-wonder-if-our-presence-in-the-parliament-is-still-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/bassil-we-wonder-if-our-presence-in-the-parliament-is-still-useful\/","title":{"rendered":"BASSIL: WE WONDER IF OUR PRESENCE IN THE PARLIAMENT IS STILL USEFUL"},"content":{"rendered":"
We wonder if our presence in the Parliament is still useful, or if it’s time to shorten the term of the House and hold early elections, MP Gebran Bassil told a Parliament session at the UNESCO Palace on Friday.<\/P>
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“Everything that is going on is the result of vexatious politics, especially in terms of the electricity dossier,” the head of the Free Patriotic Movement said.<\/P>
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“Central bank governor, Riad Salameh, made a unilateral decision. We are days away from an explosion due to the fuel crisis,” he added.<\/P>
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For his part, Speaker Berri rejected Bassil’s threats of stepping down, saying: “No one can threaten with resignations.”<\/P>
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He also called for declaring a state of healthcare emergence to allow hospitals to import heir medical and pharmaceutical needs, as well as for curbing medicine cartels.<\/P>
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Source: National News Agency<\/P>
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We wonder if our presence in the Parliament is still useful, or if it’s time to shorten the term of the House and hold early elections, MP Gebran Bassil told a Parliament session at the UNESCO Palace on Friday.”Everything that is going on is the result…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1781,2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n