{"id":70907,"date":"2022-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/?guid=57df82f1e3b1d759a45eda7fbb5ede1b"},"modified":"2022-04-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T00:00:00","slug":"mikati-preparations-for-elections-on-track-remarks-on-expats-vote-under-being-studied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lebanonnewsgazette.com\/mikati-preparations-for-elections-on-track-remarks-on-expats-vote-under-being-studied\/","title":{"rendered":"MIKATI: PREPARATIONS FOR ELECTIONS ON TRACK, REMARKS ON EXPATS VOTE UNDER BEING STUDIED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>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\u2019 voting process.<\/P><P><\/P><P>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).<\/P><P><\/P><P>Tackling the capital controls, Mikati said the law should have been endorsed on the first day of the crisis. \u201cPeople confused the capital controls with the preservation of deposits,\u201d he added, highlighting the necessity to approve the legislations requested by the International Monetary Fund to unlock the aid program.<\/P><P><\/P><P>Source: National News Agency &#8211; Lebanon<\/P><P><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019 voting process.Speaking at the beginning of a Cab&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1797,9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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