Berri Signs State Budget Draft Law, Refers it to Government
Speaker Nabih Berri signed Lebanon's state budget draft for the year 2017 and referred to the government on Monday, media reports said.
Lebanon's first state budget in 12 years was recently approved during a parliament meeting on October 19.
Lawmakers have approved the budget after arduous debate that saw sixty-one MPs vote in favor of the bill, while four lawmakers from the Kataeb Party voted against as eight other lawmakers abstained from voting.
MPs who abstained from voting were MP Antoine Zahra of the Lebanese Forces, independent MP Butros Harb of Batroun and six lawmakers from Hizbullah's Loyalty to Resistance bloc.
The parliamentary debate had witnessed heated arguments over the issue of approving a state budget without the submission of final accounts for the past 12 years.
Source: Naharnet
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