Exceptional decrees by the executive post are spending the public’s money without any oversight.
Days before forming the new government, Lebanese President Michel Suleiman signed an exceptional decree transferring US$ 16 million from the reserve budget for emergency expenses to the budget of the Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR) to implement the first phase of four projects in his hometown of Amchit and the surrounding towns. The decree reveals that the president is combining necessary expenses with projects that do not have funds allocated in the draft budge.
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