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A banking source says that the small banks’ refusal to pay the $400 a month and the reduction of the amount to $200 is due to their lack of sufficient liquidity.
It seems clear that playing the sectarian line will advance the next stage on all sides.
The mayors of the mountain municipalities are said to be sounding the alarm if fuel for the snowplow mechanisms is not secured, otherwise disaster is imminent.
For the first time in years, the representatives of the “Loyalty to the Resistance” bloc refrain from shaking hands with the representatives of the “Free Patriotic Movement” in the House of Representatives, confirming the slogan given to them by avoiding them, after the accusations leveled against of them by the deputy Gebran Bassil.
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Republic
A senior official said some were fleeing consensus on electing a president for the republic on the pretext that they were paying a price with their popular and political resources, insisting that the cost of consensus, however high, the catastrophic price that the country will pay with the persistence of the current situation will be measured.
It was known that a bitter and intractable dispute between a minister and the head of one of the departments affiliated with his ministry can go so far as to appeal to the judiciary.
Some of the ministers who boycotted the cabinet session were surprised at the reception they received at the Grand Serail on the grounds that “there is nothing to spoil a friendship with an issue”.
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Major General
A prominent presidential candidate, whose name is circulating in Arab and international forums, is asking for more guarantees, to make progress in putting the country back on the road to recovery.…
A strong-willed deputy, who enjoys regional and council merits, has distanced himself from a dispute between two allies which risked leading to unforeseen consequences.!
The level of transparency in banks’ dealings with their customers has dropped to a dangerous level. And it has turned into a kind of blindness, both on transfers and on any source of income, however modest!
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home call
Diplomatic circles expected the political center to spark Lebanese imagination and speculation about what former US Deputy Secretary of State and former Ambassador to Beirut David Hale would bring during his visit to Beirut regarding the presidency , while he was no longer in the administration and became a senior researcher on the Middle East at the Wilson Institute..
A sitting minister resented the absence of media professionals from his press conference, limiting the audience to photographers.
An Arab diplomat points to the difference in political circumstances between the current presidential vacancy and the 2014 vacancy, suggesting that the elections will end soon..
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Construction
An Iranian diplomatic source said that Tehran and major cities have not seen opposition rallies for more than a month and that the demonstration of demand is a natural phenomenon in Iranian political life, unlike controlled vandalism and dissent images posted on previous events, and some images of the crowd belong to state loyalists.
A leading political source says there are only two serious candidates for the presidency of the republic, former minister Suleiman Franjieh and army commander Joseph Aoun, and that the Free Patriotic Movement knows that if it decides to go for an option far from Hezbollah, even through a third name, will favor the army commander and he will be the current indirect candidate.
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An official reference intends to postpone the proposal to take a step by the government so as not to add fuel to the fire.
It was reported that the content of recent external meetings conducted by the head of a political faction was the reason for an active party’s cover-up of a government move.
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