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  • BEIRUT: Appointments Made By Majority Vote: Aoun'S Bloc Vetoed, Hizb

    APPOINTMENTS MADE BY MAJORITY VOTE: AOUN'S BLOC VETOED, HIZBULLAH ABSTAINED, TASHNAG APPROVED

    NaharNet
    March 4 2010
    Lebanon

    Following a heated debate, 20 Cabinet ministers voted in favor of
    a series of appointments and the Council of Ministers is scheduled
    to hold an extraordinary session on Thursday to approve other
    designations.

    Selection of names was not itself shocking, but the way Prime Minister
    Saad Hariri handled the issue when he insisted that the appointments
    be made by a majority vote of the Cabinet.

    Those who voted in favor of the measure where ministers representing
    Future Movement, Progressive Socialist Party, AMAL, Lebanese Forces
    and Phalange Party.

    Three ministers from Michel Aoun's Change and Reform bloc vetoed the
    appointments and two Hizbullah members abstained from voting.

    And to complete the surprise, Tashnag Cabinet Minister Abraham Dedeyan,
    who is a member of Aoun's bloc, was the person who tipped the balance
    in the voting.

    The government on Wednesday named former Cabinet Minister Khaled
    Qabbani as head of the Civil Service Council, Judge Aouni Ramadan as
    President of the Audit Bureau and Magistrate Ahmad Karam as head the
    Judicial Inspection Committee.

    Cabinet also agreed to a proposal by Energy and Water Minister Jebran
    Bassil to stop subsidizing diesel oil.

    "Minister Bassil will submit suggestions in the next session aimed to
    help citizens and reduce their fuel expenses," Information Minister
    Tareq Mitri said.

    Cabinet will meet Thursday to approve appointments for the Banking
    Control Committee.
    From: Baghdasarian
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