Asharq Al-Awsat Sources: The resigned government is obliged to legalize criminal scrutiny of state accounts



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Representative sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the resigned government is now obliged to legalize the financial criminal audit of the state accounts, although there are those who oppose assigning this power to a resigned government, because it can only meet in compelling and exceptional circumstances. they do not apply to auditing financial accounts.
The sources indicated that it is not allowed to skip the need to legalize the audit process, and this was testified by a witness from his family, referring to the charge issued at the end of the session by the head of the Parliamentary Committee for Administration and Justice, Deputy George Adwan, who was the spearhead in the attacks against the governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon. Riad Salameh, and lobbied in support of Aoun’s message, and said that there is no escape, as he said, from legalizing the financial audit.
The same sources confirmed that it had been previously, after the “Taif Agreement”, that Parliament approved the budget of a resigned government, and they saw that the current government cannot present a bill by which it wants to legalize financial auditing, and they attributed the reason to two things: The first is that the priority must be It is given to discuss next year’s budget, so this matter cannot be ignored with the expiration of the constitutional deadline to submit the budget project to Parliament for your discussion and approval.
Regarding the second issue, according to parliamentary sources, the resigned government cannot sign a contract with a financial auditing company, because it needs a new expense contract to cover the cost of this audit, and this prevents the government from insuring it, because conducts business on a small scale.



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