The correspondent of “Al-Nashra” in the House of Representatives said that “the issue of the threefold increase in the salaries of civil servants and pensioners has not been approved so far, pending the response of the Ministry of Finance on the change. of numbers. “
On the other hand, he stressed that “a number of retired soldiers were able to enter parliament, but the security forces managed to get them out”.
On a related level, a Lebanese army force arrived in Nejmeh Square, in support of the Parliament Police and the security forces, where there was friction between the demonstrators and the security forces, who tried to remove them from the scene. , and this coincided in the presence of Representative Cynthia Zarazer, who was pushed because of the friction between the security forces and the demonstrators. .
Some of the demonstrators slept on the ground to prevent an attempt to dislodge them.
The retired soldiers appealed to the demonstrators, the army chief, to go ashore and listen to their demands and work towards their fairness.
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