BEIRUT: The Cabinet is set to meet Thursday amid tacit tensions over constitutional powers between the president and the prime minister in deciding Lebanon’s policies, as well as a wide anti-corruption campaign that appears to be targeting the Future Movement.
Prime Minister Saad Hariri is scheduled to chair the Cabinet session, the second since the new government gained an overwhelming vote of confidence from Parliament on Feb. 15, at 11:30 p.m. Thursday at the Grand Serail.
The agenda includes 52 items, most of them ordinary financial matters, including a request by the Finance Ministry to issue Treasury Eurobonds and a proposal by the Industry Ministry to protect national products.