Constitutional Council

Who Exploited the Dollars Allocated for Subsidized Products?

The destiny of the Finance Law remains uncertain. Every budgetary article voted by Parliament is subject to invalidation appeal before the Constitutional Council once the text is promulgated and published in the Official Gazette. Before the final version of the 2024 budget was released, an outcry erupted over an article that was introduced during ...

Constitutional Council Suspends 9 Articles of 2024 Budget

On Monday, the Constitutional Council (CC) suspended the application of nine articles (10, 39, 40, 56, 69, 83, 86, 87, 91) of the budget law for fiscal year 2024, following an appeal for invalidation—which was accepted—submitted a week earlier by 10 MPs from the Kataeb (Samy Gemayel, Nadim Gemayel, Salim el-Sayegh, Elias Hankach), Renewal ...

Municipal Elections: Constitutional Council Rejects Three Appeals

The Constitutional Council (CC) rejected, on Tuesday, the three appeals lodged against the law extending the terms of municipal councils and mokhtars. The law was adopted by Parliament on April 25. The Constitutional Council invoked the exceptional circumstances in Lebanon, alluding to the war in South Lebanon between Hezbollah and Israel. The ...