Saniora: Stresses Parliament Responsibility in Approving Wage Increases
Prime Minister Fouad Saniora attended a parliamentary legislative session on Monday, which passed a law for increasing public sector minimum wage.
"The legislature is master of its own domain, I bow in respect at parliament”s will, and I say those who take a decision bear the responsibility," Saniora said prior to the law”s passage.
At the session”s debut Saniora expressed his hope that members of parliament would not adopt many increases saying Lebanon”s financial situation cannot bear any further monetary burdens.
He called for maintaining the minimum level of financial astuteness in light of the international financial crisis that is sparing no one.
During a government-sponsored ceremony to celebrate the publishing of the annual national account for 2006-2007 Saniora said Lebanon”s economy could have been 15% larger than it is had it not been for all the events of the past three years.