| Governorate of Beirut |
| Member of
Parliament (MP) |
Actions relevant to legislative issues and performance of monitoring |
Source and Date of source |
| Stances related to public policies proposed
during plenary sessions |
| MP Agop Kassarjian |
Call for the amendment of the Associations Law and enhancement
of the independence of the judiciary |
Parties Law |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on July 30, 2005 |
| Beirut MP- 3rd District |
MP Agop Kassarjian said: "Confidence is awarded to the government in this
regard since its ministerial statement included a commitment to draft a
modern electoral law within a period of five months. This would go hand in
hand with achieving administrative decentralization and drafting a new law
for parties." The body in charge of updating and establishing laws set a
legal formula for political parties, by virtue of which it annulled the
Associations Law, promulgated by the Ottoman Empire in 1909. "The honorable
Cabinet entrusted the adoption of this legal formula to an MP so that we
examine it and pass it in order to establish modern parties which transcend
sectarian fanaticism. The Cabinet handed Robert Ghanem, the chairman of the
Administration and Justice Committee this formula."
Kassarjian asked: "When will the mentioned committee proceed with
examining it?".
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| Chairman
of the Parliamentary Committee for the Displaced
Member of the Parliamentary Committee of National Defense, Interior
and Municipalities
Member of the Parliamentary Committee of Economy, Trade, Industry and
Planning |
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| MP Amin Sherri |
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| Beirut
MP- 2nd District |
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| Rapporteur
of the Youth and Sports Committee |
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| Member
of the Parliamentary Committee of National Economy, Trade, Industry and
Planning |
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| MP Bassem al-Shabb |
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| Beirut
MP- 1st District |
| - Member of the Parliamentary Committee of National Economy,
Trade, Industry and Planning |
| MP
Bahige Tabbara |
Call for postponing the discussion of some articles of the
Constitutional Council Law, pending the formation of a new government |
Constitutional Council |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on July 19, 2005 |
| Beirut MP- 2nd District |
MP Tabbara said: "I hope that
settlement of the matter would be postponed until after the government is
formed because, in case of delay, the Constitutional Council may have
appointed committees to examine the challenges before it. Hence, what will
happen to these challenges when the government appoints new members?". |
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Position on the role of the judiciary and the Constitutional
Council |
The
Constitutional Council |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on July 29, 2005 |
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Future
Movement MP, Bahij Tabbara,
had an intervention in which he mainly focused on the judiciary affairs since
the "judiciary deserves a firm stance from us." |
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Recalling
the "interference which the judiciary was subject to, where public
prosecutions served to get back at rivals of power, which destabilized
confidence in this institution," he stressed that "confidence is
one of the judicial order and credibility conditions." |
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He
called for "punishing every meddling, immunizing judges, defining their
obligations and holding them accountable." |
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He
pointed out the necessity to "draft texts that prevent combination
between the ministry and the judiciary." Tabbara noted that "the
Constitutional Council is in dire need for a new start to restore confidence
in it," demanding "amendments of the Council's law and by-laws
(..)." |
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Position on the structure of security apparatuses amidst the
string of assassinations |
Security situation and security apparatuses |
An Nahar daily on October 6, 2005 |
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MP Tabbara said: "We all know
that among the demerits of the security structure is that every confession
has an intelligence service special to one of its members, to an extent that
the State set up a security apparatus for the mere purpose of allocating it to
one confession that did not have it! The multitude of apparatuses should have
lead to creative competition among them to serve the society and uncover
crimes, and to anticipate a crime before it happens. Instead, every apparatus
had the concern of how to obstruct the work of the other and put sticks into
its wheels. In the past, the security structure had one advantage: all of
these apparatuses were affiliated with one external authority. However,
today, it has become more than urgent to build a structure that includes all
of these apparatuses under the supervision of a unified Lebanese authority
that would be in charge of coordinating between them. |
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Position on the law-proposal aimed at amending the Law on the
Constitutional Council |
The Constitutional
Council |
An Nahar daily on
December 1, 2005 |
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Regarding
the law-proposal aimed at amending some of the articles in Law No. 93/250 on
the formation of the Constitutional Council, MP Bahij Tabbara, who is one of
those who drafted this proposal, defended the law-proposal and the mechanism
of appointment. |
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He
explained: "This does not mean that if we appoint someone, this person
would be affiliated with the person who appointed him. This concept is wrong.
The Constitutional Council should transcend all doubts. |
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This
is where the idea of promoting the institution again came from, in order to
safeguard it. We expanded the selection base and set an appointment mechanism
that allows better selection. We reached a consensus on a new mechanism. This
base would lead to better appointment. I hope this proposal be discussed
outside the circle of political bickering." |
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Discussion
of Proprietorship Law |
Construction and
Real-Estate Affairs |
An Nahar daily on December 1,
2005 |
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MP
Butros Harb proposed the draft law in decree number 11256, amending law
number 91/58 on the Propertietorship Law. He requested that the discussion
tackle each article at a time. After endorsing articles 1 to 6, article 7 was
read. He said the legal text does not start with negation, i.e. with
"No". On the contrary, it should start with affirmation, where the
term "No" and "except" should be deleted. MP Bahij Tabbara said that this wording is followed in order to avoid
confusion. MP Walid Eido suggested the addition
of the word "only". It was agreed to abide by the proposals of Harb
and Eido. |
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Article
9 was endorsed. Then, article 10 was proposed. Harb said this article
entitled landlords of common properties to file one claim, whereas the
article should provide for "one or more claims." The article was
corrected. Article 11 was then read. Harb said that the possibility of appeal
should be stipulated. Tabbara explained that appeal
leads to keeping one quarter of the compensation, as per the Constitution. |
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Harb
replied: "What Tabbara said is a different issue. Hence, it should be
affirmed that appeals do not suspend implementation." Eido suggested the
addition of the last idea in the article. Tabbara
reiterated his fears. Berri clarified that the
quarter will be paid and the formalities will not be suspended. The article
was amended as Eido suggested. |
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| Jean
Oghassabian |
The Monitor does not examine activities of
Ministers. |
| Beirut MP - 3rd
District |
| Minister of State for Administrative Development |
| MP
Jubran Tuéni |
Martyred on December 12, 2005 |
| Beirut MP - 1st
District |
| Saadeddine
Hariri |
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| Beirut MP - 1st
District |
| MP Serge Tour-Sarkissian |
Position from the Security Services |
The
security situation and security services |
An
Nahar daily October 6, 2005 |
| Beirut MP - 3rd District |
| Member of Administration and Justice Committee |
MP Serge Tour-Sarkissian said that: "this is the time for action and not
words." He considered that the "explosions and assassinations are
terrorist acts which depend on new and advanced methods that the different
authorities responsible for security fail to recognize. These are terrorist
crimes whereby the International Community has to assist in blocking them
especially after the responsible officials in Lebanon declared that the State
lacked the adequate means to fight such forms of crimes." |
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| Member of Youth and Sports Committee |
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| MP Solange Gemayel |
Attitude
on Financial Waste, Corruption, and Exclusive Agreements with Syria |
Judicial System |
An
Nahar daily on July 30, 2005 |
| Beirut MP - 1st District |
MP Gemayel said: "Financial
Waste and Corruption cannot be fought without the independence of the
judicial section, whose headline should be: Honesty and Justice. That is why
our legislative authority should provide to it a modern law which secures for
it what it deserves: total independence whereby the Judge would arm himself
with the law to practically rule in the name of the Lebanese people rather by
the name of any political, security official or foreign custody. |
Ant-Corruption |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on July 30, 2005 |
| Member of Education, High Education and Culture Committee |
That way we
would have applied the principle of separating the authorities as written in
the Constitution as well as we would have achieved the headline of absolute
transparency to the new authority that is springing out from your generous
council. It is not acceptable that Lebanon should remain amongst the advanced
nations in a world of corruption. |
Foreign
Policy |
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| Member of Human Rights Committee |
Henceforth, we
demand from the government under this context to launch the hands of
investigations and surveillances' officials as well as allow it to perform
their job under complete freedom because they are the ones who know about
what is going on behind the scenes." |
Defence
of Human Rights |
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| Reporter of Women and
Children Committee |
She
also requested from the government to "revise all exclusive agreements
signed between Lebanon and Syria during the latter's mandate because we do
not want any harm to be inflicted on our Syrian brothers as we heard and read
these days in the different forms of the media. We also have to immediately
charge upon the issue of the Lebanese missing and detainees in Syrian
prisons." |
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| MP Atef Majdalani |
Position
from Signing the on the Passengers' International Transportation and
Transportation of Commodities on Land |
Precaution and Medicine |
An
Nahar daily on May 4, 2006 |
| Beirut MP - 3rd District |
Discussed under decree number 14859 which allows the government
to set a deal between Belorussia and Lebanon in regards to International
Transportation of Passengers and Commodities by land, the bill was proposed. MP Atef Majdalani
made it clear that this "deal is a necessity because it protects our
markets from fake medicine coming from different countries. This also has to
be followed by a law to preserve the quality of medicine." |
Air, Land, and
Sea Transportation |
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| President of Public Health, Labor and Social Affairs Committee |
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| Member of Information and
Telecommunications Committee |
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Position
on the facilitation of providing Housing Loans for Married Disabled Citizens |
Disabled Rights |
An
Nahar daily on October 2, 2006 |
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MP Atef Majdalani stressed to the
"importance" of the current bill, decree number 16351, in order to
facilitate the providing of housing loans for married disabled citizens as
modified by the Committee of National Health and Social Affairs. |
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| MP Ghassan
Tuéni |
Position
from Elections to Kuwait and Palestine |
Foreign Policy |
Al-Mustaqbal
daily on January 31, 2006 |
| Beirut MP - 1st District |
MP Ghassan Tuéni submitted two
proposals. The first one suggests for the parliament to send the Parliament
of Kuwait a salutation for achieving democracy and to stress that the ties
between Lebanon and Kuwait is strong, especially that Kuwait accompanied the
Lebanese case constantly. The Second proposal is for the government to do a
dialogue initiative with Hamas Movement, and he added: "I think the
positive approach done by Hamas in its green revolution has created a
positive atmosphere in Lebanon if the Lebanese will treat positively what was
a Palestinian extremism and expose themselves to the Palestine Moderation. |
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| MP
Michel Pharaon |
The Monitor does not examine activities of
Ministers. |
| Beirut MP - 1st
District |
| Minister of State for Parliament affairs |
| MP
Nabil de Freige |
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| Beirut MP - 2nd
District |
| President of National Economy, Commerce, Industry and Planning
Committee |
| Member of Finance and Budget Committee |
| MP Walid Eido |
Martyed on June 13, 2009 |
| Beirut MP - 2nd District |
| MP
Yeghia Jerjian |
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| Beirut MP - 2nd District |
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