Lebanese President Michel Aoun discussed with Prime Minister Najib Mikati general conditions in the country on Friday.
During a meeting at Baabda Palace, Aoun and Mikati the president and the PM tackled the draft budget law for the year 2022, in addition to the electricity file, the Lebanese Presidency Press Office said in a statement.
Aoun and Mikati stressed the necessity of taking steps that determine definite and clear course of electricity file, the statement said.
“I met His Excellency the President and briefed him on the atmosphere that prevailed in recent days, in terms of discussing the draft budget within the Council of Ministers and finalizing it in the next session, God willing, in preparation for submitting it to the Parliament in its final form,” Mikati said following the meeting.
On the electricity issue, the Lebanese PM the electricity advance will be outside the budget sent to the Parliament.
“We must adopt either the presence of electricity permanently or not, so it is a partial solution and giving an advance every time, similar to what happened during the past thirty years is something that the ministers oppose, as we need a complete and clear plan for electricity through which we know when it will be available 24 hours a day, and what our situation is at the moment.”
Mikati said that they agreed to hold a Cabinet session next Thursday in Baabda Palace, hoping that the Government will finish studying the budget on the same day, “even if the session took hours.”
“In view of the accumulated issues that must be studied in the Council of Ministers, I informed the President of my invitation to the Council to convene next Tuesday in the Grand Serail to take the appropriate decisions,” he added.
Source: Agencies
