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Bassil: The cabinet session is illegal and nothing less than a premeditated robbery of the presidency website
NNA – Al-Matn – The head of the Free Patriotic Movement, MP Gebran Bassil, considered that “yesterday’s cabinet meeting is unconstitutional, illegitimate and unconstitutional”, underlining that it is “an execution of the constitution, a coup deadly in Taif and a stab at a national deal that was announced in Parliament”.

He said at a press conference held after the “Strong Lebanon” bloc’s meeting with Mirna Chalouhi:

“Yesterday they announced that they are issuing decrees without the signature of the President of the Republic and the Council of Ministers jointly, which is vested with the powers of the president under Article 62 of the Constitution.” The site of the Presidency of the Republic on previous determination and determination.

And he considered that “what happened confirms that what was required of Najib Mikati was not to form a government, and that’s what we told everyone when we refused to appoint him”.

He underlined that “the President of the Republic is indivisible, since the powers attributed to him are not exercised by anyone on his behalf, and the powers relating to his signature are exercised on his behalf by all the ministers, as happened between 2014 and 2016.”

He pointed out that “a third of the government did not participate yesterday, and the government is incomplete with the specifics, and some have decided to exclude a component from the cabinet, and nobody can take us back to before 2005.”