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#Lebanon parliament convenes for a legislative session on Monday w/ 68 laws on the agenda
Here's the important ones (+what's missing):
-Amendment to domestic violence law + law criminalizing sexual harassment including in the workplace
-Law creating temp. unemployment fund
1/5
Here's the important ones (+what's missing):
-Amendment to domestic violence law + law criminalizing sexual harassment including in the workplace
-Law creating temp. unemployment fund
1/5
-Law to return money transferred out of Lebanon after Oct. 17 2019
-2 Laws to raise banking secrecy, including on everyone who held public office since 1990
-Law to increase punishment for those caught smuggling subsidized goods
-3 laws to raise subsidies on some medications
2/5
-2 Laws to raise banking secrecy, including on everyone who held public office since 1990
-Law to increase punishment for those caught smuggling subsidized goods
-3 laws to raise subsidies on some medications
2/5
-Law enforcing a forensic audit of the Central Bank
-Law to allow all loans to be paid in local currency
-Law forcing all universities to accept payment in local currency + base tuition on 2017-2018 term
-Law giving 300 billion Lebanese pound support to private schools
3/5
-Law to allow all loans to be paid in local currency
-Law forcing all universities to accept payment in local currency + base tuition on 2017-2018 term
-Law giving 300 billion Lebanese pound support to private schools
3/5
-2 amnesty bills, 1 calling for a general amnesty for 1000s, another for partial amnesty to reduce prison pop. during COVID
-Law ending tax breaks for religious sects
-Law extending a private concession for a company
providing electricity to Zahle
-Jabal Rihan nature reserve
4/5
-Law ending tax breaks for religious sects
-Law extending a private concession for a company
providing electricity to Zahle
-Jabal Rihan nature reserve
4/5
What's missing?
-A capital controls law, which is more than a year late + is main demand of donors
-Public procurement reform, also main demand of donors.
-Law for independence of the judiciary, long-overdue and a main demand of the people.
5/5
-A capital controls law, which is more than a year late + is main demand of donors
-Public procurement reform, also main demand of donors.
-Law for independence of the judiciary, long-overdue and a main demand of the people.
5/5
