Berri to Siniora: You Have a Chance to March 5 to Explain Gov’t’s Spending
As the dispute of governmental spending is governing the Lebanese political discussions, House Speaker Nabih Berri gave former Prime Minister Foaud Siniora a last chance to uncover his government expenditures that mounted to $11 billion.
In an interview with "as-Safir" daily, Berri announced that he decided to "give Future bloc leader MP Fouad Siniora a chance until the next parliamentary session scheduled on March 5 to deal positively with the ministerial committee tasked to follow up on the government expenditures issue."
"Siniora can't link 8.9 trillion L.L. spent by the government in 2011 to the governments' expenses from 2006 until 2010," Berri explained.
He also said that "the parliamentary Finance and Budget Committee described every item of the 2011 expenditures," however "we do not know on what the $11 billion were spent."
Calling the "Future bloc" to "vote whether with or against allocating to the cabinet 8.9 trillion L.L. for extraordinary expenses in 2011 instead of withdrawing from the session," the speaker informed that he "will call for voting during the next parliamentary session if the quorum was complete."
Source: as-Safir newspaper, Translated and Edited by moqawama.org
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