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    The Lebanese Parliament today, September 16, in its session discussing the country’s budget for 2022, agreed to triple the salaries of public sector employees, including soldiers, retirees, and contractors, as part of social assistance.
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    Lebanese Parliament Approved 2022 State Budget

    By Miguel HadchitySeptember 27, 2022
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    The Lebanese Parliament approved on Monday the 2022 state budget with 63 MPs voting for it, 37 voting against it, and 6 abstaining out of 106 lawmakers present in the session.

    The budget includes a three-fold wage hike for public sector employees and the armed forces as well as for retirees.

    The first session was adjourned more than a week ago due to a loss of quorum.

    At the beginning of yesterday’s session, the head of the finance committee MP Ibrahim Kanaan objected to the numbers sent by the Finance Ministry which were based on a value of LBP 15,000 for the so-called “customs dollar.”

    The lawmakers later approved hiking passport issuance fees to LBP 1 million for a validity of five years and LBP 2 million for a validity of 10 years.

    They also approved a suggestion from the Lebanese Forces (LF) bloc for exempting retirement salaries from income taxes.

    The bloc also raised the issue of recovering $52 million from a number of airlines for the benefit of the Lebanese University (LU).

    Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) chief Gebran Bassil meanwhile said his bloc was “living a dilemma.”

    “On the one hand, it is not right to continue with such an unclear budget whose numbers are unorganized and lacking reforms. On the other hand, the budget’s approval would help regulate public finances and rectify state administrations’ situation,” Bassil added.

    “There is an unserious approach in dealing with the budget issue,” the FPM chief said.

    Speaker Nabih Berri for his part hit back at remarks by caretaker PM Najib Mikati.

    “You’re saying something wrong that should be omitted from the minutes of the meeting. Neither I nor parliament will submit to the International Monetary Fund or others. Parliament is the master of itself and there is sovereignty in our parliament,” Berri added.

    Mikati had said that “the IMF has pledged to cover the deficit after an agreement is reached or else we would be heading to inflation.”

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