Kanaan Responds to Al-Shami: History Will Not Spare Those Who Concealed Information

Responses and debates continue between the Deputy Prime Minister in charge of daily affairs, Saada al-Shami, and the head of the Finance and Budget Committee, MP Ibrahim Kanaan. Perhaps the latest response from Kanaan, which he attached to the "X" platform, stated: "His Excellency Deputy Prime Minister Al-Shami, you have talked a lot, but you have not provided a single meaningful sentence in response to the central and fundamental question posed to advance any similar law aimed at addressing the financial gap in the Central Bank of Lebanon and recovering deposits according to your claims (despite your famous categorization of deposits into qualified and unqualified, which we objected to). In these proposals for 'compensation for loss,' we ask: Where is the impartial audit of the accounts and assets of banks and the revenues and accounts of the public sector? Why the delay after four years of collapse? Unless what is required, as we have previously stated, are mere nominal laws, nothing more and nothing less." He continued: "We will meet next Monday at the Finance and Budget Committee table, so bring your numbers and official documents we have been waiting for months to discuss according to proper procedures and the mechanism of interaction between the Parliament and the government… There it will be evident that your government and media data, in various forms, which have not addressed any point we raised, do not exempt you from error, responsibility, and negligence. Finally, it is true that history will vindicate the serious ones, but it will not spare those who concealed the necessary information and data to preserve the interests of depositors in implementation of orders that do not require psychological analysis, and the people will not spare you either, so be on their side."