The message from Aoun to Berri

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nabih Berri, received at the headquarters of the Second Presidency in Ain Al-Tinah, the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Salim Griissati, a delegate of the President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun Gritati.

After the meeting, he said: "I had the honor today to meet and meet the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Nabih Berri, who still means not to say Almlm. but when certain events requiring strong coordination between the President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives are existing and are not new, With regard to the state of the President, the time, especially the subject of the budget, where It was pointed out that His Excellency, the President, has never signed the draft budget, which only recalls that the President, who has approved three budgets after the interruption since 2005, has completed his term in the Ministry of Finance. 1 year finance From 993 to 2017 inclusive and in his reign was stressed the need to approve the account quota laws in Cabinet, the House of Representatives gave the government six months to complete the accounts and thanked President Berri for this initiative.

He added: "Anyone accessing these results at the level of public finances does not expect that he will not sign the finance law, whatever his reasons, or allow God to challenge the law. of the Constitutional Council, this case will not take place and the President was instructed to read the budget carefully to minors before signing it. "

"The second question that has been discussed is how to deal with certain points of the budget, in particular Article 80, in which the President will send a letter to the House of Representatives of the President interpreting Article 95 of the Constitution, in particularly the paragraph "in accordance with the requirements of the national agreement".

He continued: "discussed with the President of the President the legal provisions that provide for the mechanism to be followed in this regard and this mechanism will certainly be followed and will guide the letter with the budget with the law on the reduction of accounts at the same time and remains that the message will be the guard of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the House of Representatives because the importance We will all agree in this country, which is the country of balance, par excellence , and we all agree on the concept of national agreement and what national reconciliation means. "

"Of course, there are other steps that we talked about, but I can not keep them secret, because I have not been able to provide the president with the president of the republic for the moment. to speak with His Excellency. "