After their approval … Aoun responded to two bills in the House of Representatives explaining the reasons

President Michel Aoun returned to the House of Representatives by Decree No. 5271 of 25 July 2019, a law pbaded by the Council on 27 June "Exemption granted to children of Lebanese women married to non-Lebanese women and holders of a courtesy residence to obtain a work permit", In order to examine it.

The reasons that led to the request for referral of the law to the House of Representatives, the following points:

– Paragraph c) of the Constitution states that Lebanon is a republic founded on the equal rights and duties of all citizens, the principle of equality which is re-established by Article 7 of the Constitution. the Constitution.

– the equal rights of all citizens presuppose the equality of Lebanese children, so that the right to work can not be linked and approved by the acquisition of housing for the benefit of courts,

– The law to be reviewed is ambiguous as to the provisions of "the unintelligibility of the law" as to whether the authoritative work leave provided for therein (that is to say that the 39; establishment of courtesy is a work permit) covers all areas of activity, including those governed by laws to exercise Especially because the law to be revised aims to "legislate a comprehensive rule: the Lebanese women have rights recognized by the constitution and the first is the equality of men "

– the age of fifteen is completely contrary to international labor standards, where the development of a special law on the work of the minor, as well as on its terms,

– The current law deals in part with the problem of the rights of Lebanese children, which requires full treatment, which is always subject to different approaches, especially in the House of Representatives and its relevant committees,

– The principle of equality is measured and applied in similar situations and not in different legal situations, such as the attribution of Lebanese to certain professions and companies because of their specificity, the principle of reciprocity and the similar national considerations, and we propose at this stage that the children of women be discriminated against. Lebanese women marry non-Lebanese by giving preference to foreigners on the labor market by facilitating work in Lebanon as much as it allows and allows the labor market. work after absorbing the Lebanese.

Anti-corruption law

In addition, on July 25, 2019, President Aoun returned to the Chamber of Deputies by Decree No. 5272, pbaded by the Council on 27 June "Fight against corruption in the public sector and creation of the National Anti-Corruption Authority", In order to examine it.

The reasons that prompted Aoun to request the return of the law to the House of Representatives, the following points:

– with regard to the immunization of this law in order to achieve the supreme objective and sought after behind the provisions and mechanisms are integrated into an integrated system, appropriate and compatible with the system of fight against the legal corruption,

– This law should, in principle, be valid within the framework of the "national anti-corruption strategy", which has not yet been adopted and which must be adopted quickly, in order to reproduce all its requirements and to not to create zones of contradiction or reduction of the scourge of corruption,

– The adoption of the legal system of States that effectively fight against corruption and taking into account international recommendations and treaties in this regard should be added to the public sector, to the "business sector" sector, namely the private sector, the contracting sector and the public sector,

– There are agreements to which Lebanon should adhere or conclude in order to complement the international legal instrument against corruption, such as the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in international commercial transactions (May 23, 1997), which we started with the constitutional mechanism of accession, 52 of the Constitution, Lebanon is more concerned than ever by the provisions of these conventions and is able to s & # 39; to badociate with international institutions and companies in various fields, at least to take advantage of them in the development of anti-corruption laws

Article 13 of the Constitution stipulates that freedom of badembly and freedom of badociation are guaranteed by law and that freedom of badociation and freedom of badociation are guaranteed,

– Article 6 of this law prohibits current and former members of Lebanese parties from being members of the National Anti-Corruption Commission, without any clear distinction between the members of the governing bodies of the parties and the members affiliated to these parties. The definition of the term "political mandate" is also unclear. In the form of an electorate of nearly 800 judges from the judicial, administrative and financial fields, elected two judges to retire, which makes it impossible to collect this body,

– The law to be re-examined stipulates in Article 7 that public officials are deemed to be dismissed by virtue of their admission to the Commission, whereas no public official in active employment can be a candidate for the Commission, unless that this law considers that the three experts To be appointed by the Secretary of State for Administrative Development among the General Staff, the experts should not belong to the General Staff,

– The law to be re-examined specified in Article 10 that, in the event of a vacancy on the Commission at least six months before the end of its mandate, the alternative solution had to be chosen within 15 days of the date of the vacancy taken by the Council of Ministers, This selection was made on the basis of the list submitted by the body to which the member who left his post was appointed at the time of the first appointment. If this was not the case and a new appointment was required, the law in force did not respect the time allowed for the nomination of the candidate.

– The law to be re-examined stipulated, in its article 11, that it would not take part in the vote at the hearing of the authorization of the members of the member concerned to ask for the authorization, while the provision states that the member must not attend the voting session in order to guarantee the free will of the members. By voting,

– The law to be reviewed has given the Council of Ministers, in Article 12 (d), the power to suspend the work of the Commission in the event of a serious breach of its obligations, which opens the door to wide political power as regards the continuity of the Commission's work and its guarantees,

– The law to be reviewed is subject to Article 14 of the Secretary General of the Authority and to the other members of the administrative body of the Labor Law, the authority being purely functions and the current law, in its nineteenth article, allows for the delegation of some of the powers of the Board to one of its employees, the Secretary General of the Authority and other members of the Board. administrative administrative law body and its principles, which take into account the requirements of the proper functioning of the administrative general schedule and not of labor law, which does not originally concern the Authority and the tasks entrusted to it by law, noting that this body can not go to the judicial

– The law to be reviewed under Article 18 of the National Anti-Corruption Authority is responsible for receiving, retaining, managing and controlling financial information disclosure authorizations in accordance with the provisions of Article 18 of the National Anti-Corruption Authority. the law of illegal enrichment, without specifying whether this function is complementary to the functions of the entities that receive the authorizations. Under the law on illegal enrichment or the current law, the Commission replaces all the organizations mentioned in the latter law with their task of obtaining permits. "