President Michel Aoun on Thursday signed a key decree opening an extraordinary legislative session and announced that the country will have a new and “balanced” electoral law in the “coming days.”
The decree also carried the signature of Prime Minister Saad Hariri and was inked a few hours before an annual Ramadan iftar banquet at the Baabda Palace that was attended by Speaker Nabih Berri, MP Walid Jumblat, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea and a host of political, religious and social figures.
The decree stipulates that the session will begin on June 7 and end on June 20 and that it will be “exclusively limited to the approval of a new electoral law.”