Minister of State for Anti-Corruption Affairs, Nicolas Tueini, told the Voice of Lebanon Radio - 93.3 radio station that "the road leading to the budget [approval] has become open, and the process of auditing budget accounts from 1993 has been dealt with."
"We have two solutions: Either suspend article 87 of the Constitution related to financial accounts, or the Ministry of Finance gets the right to rearrange them," he said.
"Once this process is done, we can approve the budget of 2017 and 2018," he went on, adding that "the taxes proposed by the government should not affect people with low income or the middle class
Source: NNA
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