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Berri Heads "Exceptional" Youth Parliamentary Session
Source: Al-Manar TV, 22-11-2008
The picture wasn't the same at the Parliament on Friday...
Indeed, the Parliament convened in a general session, but everything was different, "exceptional." Perhaps, for the first time, attendance was complete and 128 chairs were full, a number that couldn't be granted even during the presidential election session!
However, the 128 persons who attended and took part in the session were not the same who actually come here with the intention to raise the voice, interrupt their colleagues and exploring their "strengths."
The session was, indeed, dedicated to students from secondary classes at six schools from all regions. The Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri was the only common point between the "ordinary" sessions and this "exceptional" one.
Berri, who seemed satisfied with the Students' Parliament where everyone listens to the other and pays attention to everything, put the session in the framework of the educational process aimed at training Lebanese youth on the importance of Democracy.
The students asked the Speaker whatever they wanted, and Berri answered, talking about the many sensitive issues, at the top of which are of course those related directly to the youth, such as the electoral age and even the youth's eligibility to stand for elections!
Berri said that the people of Lebanon were not terrorists, but rather the victims of terrorism, and he insisted that North Lebanon was not a source of extremist violence, as some have recently claimed.
He said that the 2009 elections would not witness a significant gap in performance between March 8 and March 14 candidates. Berri emphasized that while the electoral law of 1960 was not ideal, both the majority and the opposition benefited from it. He added that there was no enmity among the people of Lebanon, only some disagreements.
Berri welcomed cooperation with all countries, especially "brotherly" ones, and said the country would be grateful for all assistance so "long as it does not affect Lebanon's sovereignty, freedom and independence."
The picture wasn't the same at the Parliament on Friday...
Indeed, the Parliament convened in a general session, but everything was different, "exceptional." Perhaps, for the first time, attendance was complete and 128 chairs were full, a number that couldn't be granted even during the presidential election session!
However, the 128 persons who attended and took part in the session were not the same who actually come here with the intention to raise the voice, interrupt their colleagues and exploring their "strengths."
The session was, indeed, dedicated to students from secondary classes at six schools from all regions. The Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri was the only common point between the "ordinary" sessions and this "exceptional" one.
Berri, who seemed satisfied with the Students' Parliament where everyone listens to the other and pays attention to everything, put the session in the framework of the educational process aimed at training Lebanese youth on the importance of Democracy.
The students asked the Speaker whatever they wanted, and Berri answered, talking about the many sensitive issues, at the top of which are of course those related directly to the youth, such as the electoral age and even the youth's eligibility to stand for elections!
Berri said that the people of Lebanon were not terrorists, but rather the victims of terrorism, and he insisted that North Lebanon was not a source of extremist violence, as some have recently claimed.
He said that the 2009 elections would not witness a significant gap in performance between March 8 and March 14 candidates. Berri emphasized that while the electoral law of 1960 was not ideal, both the majority and the opposition benefited from it. He added that there was no enmity among the people of Lebanon, only some disagreements.
Berri welcomed cooperation with all countries, especially "brotherly" ones, and said the country would be grateful for all assistance so "long as it does not affect Lebanon's sovereignty, freedom and independence."
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