SAWT BEIRUT INTERNATIONAL

| 18 May 2024, Saturday |

Sawt Beirut International News Bulletin for April 23, 2022

Will the Berri-Mikati plot succeed?

The political and economic picture is becoming clearer day by day, as are the alignments associated with it. What is happening at the level of Capital Control confirms that the Speaker of Parliament and the Prime Minister are conspiring against the people in the Capital Control file, at least. As soon as the session of the joint committees ended on Wednesday, Najib Mikati sent the clarifications required to Parliament, and they were recorded the next day, only within minutes in Najma Square! On the same day, Speaker Nabih Berri called the Finance and Budget and Administration and Justice Committees to meet again next Tuesday, in order to study the Capital Control Bill again. Glory be to the change of conditions! Glory be to the one who “overturns” the performance of a person or direction 180 degrees.! How did the government palace departments and the House of Representatives become so active? And who took the decision to adopt a record speed in the two institutions, in order to avoid the Easter holiday for the eastern sects, which began on Friday and does not end before Tuesday morning? Of course, the decision was taken at a high central level between Presidents Berri and Mikati. Will they be able to pass the Capital Control Law in the committees next Tuesday, in preparation for submitting it to the General Assembly of the House of Representatives before the parliamentary elections? This is what Berri and Mikati are betting on .. But will their bet succeed so that people pay the price as usual? Or will the opposition of the street, the free professions unions, and the depositors remain stronger than the conspiracy of Berri-Mikati and their scandalous conspiracy against what was left of the depositors’ lifetime harvest? Over all the time the reckoning is no longer far away. Dear Lebanese: Your country needs you, and the electoral duty is calling you. Participate extensively in the elections, as “your voices are our legitimate weapon”.