The quorum “blew” the legislative session … and this is what Berri “fears”!

The Speaker of the Parliament, Nabih, proposed the afternoon legislative session, after waiting for its resumption for more than a third of an hour, during which a quorum was not assured, and set a date for a new legislative session on October 20, and Berri said: “Sorry about the trend we are all headed for, and we fear that we will get to a place where we say For the prisoners, we cannot cure them.”

Berri explained that “there are 237 Corona cases in Zahle Prison and Roumieh Prison, they have become many, and they can accommodate 1,200 people and sleep in the corridors, and the proposed blanket amnesty law is not a Holy Quran or a Holy Bible, and I fear what I fear, that of 900 beds for emergencies, there are 100 to 150 beds, so we had patience and we created a committee and it worked, and there is an article 9 in the proposal that does not It is agreed. The next session will be on October 20, and I am obliged to elect the members of the Council on the first Tuesday after October 15. The next session electing the members of the Supreme Council who submitted the resignation, the negotiators, secretaries and the oath, and then he opened a session for legislation, including the amnesty law, and any suggestion that the clemency committee chaired by Vice President Elie Ferzli might come to a conclusion, even if before that I’m ready to make one session before this date “.

For his part, Representative Ali Hassan Khalil said that “Berri believed that postponing the session could be a way out so that we can debate before the next session on the general amnesty proposal”, and pointed out that “the blocks were not consistent with themselves. when broaching the subject. “
He noted that “the general amnesty law excludes crimes against the army and internal and external terrorism,” adding: “We were ready to address the debate in a positive way. There is no ideal law, but it must take into account the situations that we face on the ground, especially the Corona issue. “
He continued: “We are facing a legal scandal related to hundreds of detainees whose trial is delayed for non-objective reasons.”