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Beirut The escalation of disagreement between the political forces and the Lebanese parties regarding the criminal audit process, after the parliament approved a recommendation that requested that the process include all state institutions without exceptions, in contrast to what President Michel approached Aoun and the Free Patriotic Movement, headed by his son-in-law Gebran Bassil.
Parliament approved, in a session held on Friday, headed by Nabih Berri, and with the consensus of the parliamentary blocs, that “all the accounts of the Banque du Liban, ministries, independent interests, financial councils, municipalities and all funds in In parallel, they will be subject to criminal scrutiny without any obstacle or invoking banking or other secrecy. “
Aoun had focused for the last period on the criminal audit issue to confine himself to the accounts of the Central Bank of Lebanon, and considered the matter a “national problem”, after the company in charge of the restructuring announced that it will be He had withdrawn from a criminal audit of the bank because he had not received the necessary information to complete the task.
The criminal audit is one of the main demands of foreign donors to help Lebanon overcome its financial collapse. The country is experiencing the worst political and economic crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war.
Berri said during the parliamentary session: “We are facing a truly fateful session … where the country will go,” noting that all parliamentary blocs are unanimous, as long as the scrutiny is thorough and complete.
Lebanon witnessed strong differences in recent days after the cancellation of the Álvarez company and the transmission of the agreement signed with Lebanon on criminal auditing at the Banque du Liban.
For his part, a member of the Movement of the Future, Samir Al-Jisr, said: “No one in parliament rejects any justification for holding those who wasted public money accountable.” The state has an independent external audit system.
He added: “We have endured a lot of defamation, and we are in favor of revealing the truth away from the accusations that are involved in the seasons of political difference.”
In response to Aoun’s letter to the House of Representatives, he said that “criminal scrutiny does not begin until after regular scrutiny”, noting that “the Banque du Liban did not refrain from handing over documents, but handed them over to the Ministry of Finance”.
For his part, the deputy for the “Democratic Encounter” bloc, Hadi Abu Al-Hassan, said that “his parliamentary bloc with scrutiny or investigation is far from being sharp and selectively with a political record of retaliation.” Therefore, we demand full and exhaustive scrutiny. “
And he considered that “what he is doing is nothing more than a cover for real corruption and a cover for invalidity, failure and disruption, and may be a cover and an acquittal for some of those accused of corruption by launching accusations over others, and it is a cover for not revealing the truth about the port explosion. “
In his response to Aoun’s message to Parliament, he said: “We have not seen this elite on the issue of financial scrutiny in the electricity record,” adding that “the reforms need a government to approve and comply with the initiative. French bailout to pass safely while the government is suspended and may become news that was due to its interruption and did not facilitate its birth Due to small calculations, size of challenges and great guilt.
Lebanon has been waiting for almost a month to form a new government, after appointing the leader of the Future Movement, Saad Hariri. French President Emmanuel Macron had sent a message to his Lebanese counterpart urging him to accelerate the formation of a government of qualified personalities capable of emerging from the multiple crises in Lebanon.
The French initiative aimed at stabilizing Lebanon and providing an opportunity to release billions of dollars in international aid to reform the economy has yet to be successful.
Paris had announced that it would host a conference on December 2 to discuss the issue of providing humanitarian aid to Lebanon. The conference, held in cooperation with the United Nations, aims to attract the widest possible representation, with the aim of encouraging the provision of aid to the debt-ridden Lebanese economy.
Macron vowed to press ahead with his efforts to prevent Lebanon’s collapse after a massive explosion at the Beirut port in August, devastating large areas of the city and compounding the financial and political crisis in the country.
