Lebanon: “composition” contracts remain … and mediators enter the line



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Beirut: “The Gulf”

The mood of government composition continues to fluctuate, and its place has fluctuated. Once a knot is resolved, another one emerges that slows the positive momentum that witnessed the consultations over the last two days, as the understandings between President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri did not translate into reality, and they remained a decade The distribution of shares and bags was the same, which made the president of Parliament Nabih Berri enter the mediation line to overcome obstacles, in addition to the general director of Public Security, Major General Abbas Ibrahim, at the time of a positive meeting between the Minister of Finance in the interim government, Dr. Ghazi Wazni, and Daniel James, director of the company. Álvarez & Marsal, in charge of the criminal audit of the accounts of the Banque du Liban, while the Central Bank of Lebanon confirmed that it had delivered all the documents requested by the forensic audit and demanded that the government present all its accounts for audit.

Hariri is expected to visit the presidential palace in the next few hours to present President Aoun with a government formula of 18 ministers, as previously agreed, to cancel the rotation in at least the four main portfolios (financial, defense, internal and external), and for an understanding on the distribution of service bags that are still pending. A subject of disagreement, especially the health that Hezbollah adheres to, the energy that the “Free Patriotic Movement” wants, the contacts that the “Future” movement demands, and the jobs that the “Marada” movement wants after settling the matter. of the four sovereign portfolios.

On the other hand, a meeting was held between the Minister of Finance of the interim government, Dr. Ghazi Wazni, and Daniel James, director of Alvarez & Marsal, in charge of the criminal audit of the accounts of the Central Bank of Lebanon. The options to make regarding the subject of the contract were discussed during the next 24 hours. The Banque du Liban announced that it had delivered, in accordance with the law, all the documents requested by the auditing firms KPMG and Oliver Wyman.

He said the government should be the one to present the state accounts, stating that this “prevents the Central Bank of Lebanon from violating legally binding secrecy laws.”

Meanwhile, the Lebanese University professors on the owners and contracts held a sit-in, yesterday Wednesday, in front of the central administration building at the museum, to demand an improvement in their wages and living conditions. The families of the martyrs of the port of Beirut gathered at Sassine Square in Ashrafieh and began a walk to the house of the judicial investigator in the port explosion, Judge Sawan, under the title “You are all responsible for the bombing of the capital “, chanting slogans” We will not forgive, we will not go back, we will not forget. ” The protesters demanded the immediate disclosure of the investigation data, an emphasis on monitoring the file and not allowing the facts to be hidden, considering that the judiciary is a symbol of justice and truth, and that the march is not against the Judge Sawan, but to exert positive pressure towards the truth, and the perpetrators will not flee from accountability.

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