Budget, Appointments: Test of Cabinet”s Ability to Act
Cabinet is due to convene on Tuesday in yet another bid to approve the delayed 2009 state budget and administrative appointments.
Pan-Arab daily al-Hayat on Tuesday, however, pointed to the lack of optimism to reach a settlement on these issues at the cabinet session which is due in Baabda Palace later Tuesday under President Michel Suleiman.
Mustaqbal newspaper, for its part, said the cabinet session is likely to witness "signs of a breakthrough with regards to approving the state budget and completion of appointments to the Constitutional Council."
Suleiman is to head a meeting of the Higher Defense Council prior to the cabinet session to discuss the imminent Israeli military exercise and the Israel-linked spy networks.