Limit the budget deficit to 4% within 3 years, cut the electricity deficit to zero within 2 years, and rationalize the public sector employment policy.
After adopting a fair distribution of losses and putting an end to the public debt policy, restructure the public debt to be in line with international standards and the capabilities of the Lebanese economy and the production sector.
Restructure employment policy and the public sector pension system.
Overhaul and enumerate the losses of “Banque du Liban”, redirect its focus back to its core mission of maintaining currency stability and financial soundness in the banking sector, and gradually adopt a floating exchange rate.
Approve and conduct an in-depth forensic audit of the “Banque du Liban” upon identifying a trusted entity (an international agency).
Lift banking secrecy that operates without restrictions, conditions, or time limits to fulfil the forensic audit goal.
Assert the independence of the Central Bank and limit its mission to preserving the value of the national currency, controlling inflation, and protecting the purchasing power of Lebanese citizens.
Unify the Lebanese pound rate and gradually adopt a free-floating exchange rate.
Reform the banking sector by encouraging consolidation, protecting small depositors, and ensuring the financial needs of citizens and the economy are met.
Upon enumerating the losses of banks, agree to reschedule the public debt in light of the BDL's audit findings.
Protect the largest possible percentage of small depositors based on the cost of emerging from the crisis, and a fair distribution of losses.
Raise the bank capital requirements and encourage the swap of large deposits for shares (bail-in).
Hold executive officials accountable for reckless monetary and investment policies in the previous period.
Encourage investment in the production sector by limiting lending in the public sector and setting up specialized investment funds.
Read more about the "The Recovery" in the below links:
Implement the AFAAL program to fight extreme poverty through direct cash transfers.
Provide monthly direct cash assistance to families living below the extreme poverty line.
As a condition to receive assistance, compel the "beneficiary” to her/his children in school (if applicable) and to secure a vocational education for herself/him.
Include the entire budget for the conditional cash assistance in the Ministry of Social Affairs’ budget.
Establish a national social registry that assigns a unique identifier for each beneficiary and put corresponding governance mechanisms in place to ensure the program's transparency.
Secure universal health insurance coverage using a system that utilizes mandatory, state-issued Healthcare Cards.
Provide every resident of Lebanon with a mandatory national healthcare card that qualifies her/him to receive a package of basic preventive and health treatment services.
The Ministry of Social Affairs should pay the fees, partially or fully, for the poor and the extremely poor.
All health coverage providers, in both the public and private sectors, must adhere to the set price of the basic services package reflected in the Healthcare Card.
Anyone can buy additional health insurance from private providers.
Introduce fiscal incentives regarding rents and fee payments to reduce the number of vacant residential apartments.
Impose taxes on vacant properties, thus encouraging homeowners to sell or rent them out.
Reduce purchase registration fees for apartments less than 150 square meters, which are often sought by young people.
Reduce municipal fees for the rental of apartments less than 150 square meters.
Reinforce twinning projects between private and public schools.
Improve the quality of formal education by launching a partnership program between public and private schools that facilitates the transfer of knowledge, expertise, and resources between private and public schools.
Resources that may be shared between twinned schools include personnel, administrators, and/or teaching staff, as well as equipment, such as computers, laboratories, database services subscriptions, audiovisual equipment, sports fields, etc.
Schools that participate in the program will be eligible to benefit from certain tax exemptions.
Read more about the "Home of the People" in the below links:
Create 30,000 job opportunities every year through an investment plan in food and pharmaceutical industries and in the digital, creative, and tourism sectors.
Encourage the creation of specialized investment funds, especially in sectors that have competitive edges.
Streamline administrative processes hindering export operations and reduce their costs.
Develop the country’s infrastructure, particularly transportation and communications (Internet).
Develop the Labor Law with the consideration of workforce mobility.
Finance production sectors with funds from deposits in Lebanon and capital from Lebanese expatriates and international development agencies.
Embrace the section of the McKinsey plan that identifies sectors with added value and export capabilities.
Develop the financial markets in parallel with the restructuring of the banking sector.
Establish an independent municipal credit fund to develop Lebanon's regional economy according to local characteristics and foster cooperation between municipalities.
Conduct a study identifying the distinguishing competitive edges of regions and large towns in Lebanon (tourism, culture, agriculture, trade, maritime transport, ecotourism, skiing, etc.)
Approve and implement the Decentralization Law, which strengthens the role of local councils in planning, implementing, and securing financial resources.
Set up special economic zones (artificial intelligence, digital economy,...) to drive innovation and increase exports.
Adopt a law to establish specialized economic zones according to an integrated national program.
Develop vocational training in partnership with the private sector and facilitate the integration of trainees into the labor market.
Move from general vocational training schools to specialized centers of excellence, which provide expertise in specific professional areas.
Engage the private sector in the curriculum development process.
Improve the credibility of skills evaluation by introducing certificates from the private sector.
Read more about the "Economy of Tomorrow" in the below links:
Call for judicial assistance from the United Nations in the Beirut Port Explosion investigation.
Call for judicial assistance from the United Nations in the Beirut Port Explosion investigation.
Gather evidence and documents that uncover the negligence and corruption in the country that led to leaving explosive materials in the port for a period of seven years.
Request that the United Nations assist the Lebanese judiciary by sending international judges, as they did in the case of the Republic of Guatemala, to eliminate the pressure placed by authorities.
Cooperate with international bodies to freeze the accounts of corrupt officials and recoup embezzled funds that have been transferred abroad.
Gather suspicious documents and facts about corruption by officials in power and their transfer of funds abroad.
Ask the countries to which these funds were transferred to freeze them until the completion of investigations into their sources.
Prevent any Lebanese politician from taking part in any tender or public procurement, whether directly or indirectly.
Adopt a law defining which people and their relatives are banned from participating in any public tender or procurement.
Within the decrees of this law, include a detailed list enumerating all potential means by which one might circumvent this prohibition.
Ask each participant in a tender to pledge, in writing, that she/he does not work for any Lebanese politician. If a politician is a close relative of a participant in the tender, he must then pledge that the related politician is not part of the tender, personally assuming responsibility for bypassing this law.
Limit the Military Tribunal jurisdiction to the individuals and purposes it was designed for.
The jurisdiction of the exceptional Military Tribunal shall be limited to the prosecution of military personnel.
If a civilian is involved in the crime, then the entire case falls under the jurisdiction of the ordinary criminal courts.
Impose the independence of the judiciary and strengthen oversight agencies
Endorse the listed laws in this regard, especially laws for the independence of the judicial and administrative judiciary.
Strengthening control bodies by increasing their human and logistical capabilities.
Read more about the "Time of Justice" in the below links:
Implement the digitization program (high-speed Internet and 5G) and supply Internet access to every home and institution.
After reviewing the priorities, implement all the CEDRE conference decisions including infrastructure development.
Liberalize the telecommunications sector and launch new licenses in all fields, particularly the 5G and the Fiber Optics fields, and establish a Data Center.
Introduce tax incentives for startups operating in the knowledge economy sector.
Expand the prerogatives of municipalities in financial and developmental areas and automate administrative services.
Reconsider the Municipalities Law regarding the distribution of their powers, especially on the financial level.
Implement and automate the Public Procurement Law at the municipal level.
Execute a rapid public transport program in cooperation with international institutions.
Implement the World Bank program (Bus Rapid Transit)
Set up a regional waste treatment plan based on sorting and recycling instead of adopting incinerators and develop “green energies.”
Adopt a decentralized approach for the national waste treatment policy.
Reinforce the independence of municipal funds.
Encourage sorting, recycling, and developing a national plan to generate alternative energies.
Upgrade the water supply network, rationalize consumption, and use modern irrigation techniques.
Modernize the water distribution network that is responsible for 40% of water wastage.
Apply modern irrigation techniques in agriculture, which accounts for 61% of water consumption. This technology does not exceed 50% currently.
Use renewable groundwater instead of water dams.
Rely on wastewater treatment, which currently does not exceed 8% of the wastewater.
Read more about the "Smart Cities, Sustainable Villages" in the below links:
Limit the budget deficit to 4% within 3 years, cut the electricity deficit to zero within 2 years, and rationalize the public sector employment policy.
Overhaul and enumerate the losses of “Banque du Liban”, redirect its focus back to its core mission of maintaining currency stability and financial soundness in the banking sector, and gradually adopt a floating exchange rate.
Reform the banking sector by encouraging consolidation, protecting small depositors, and ensuring the financial needs of citizens and the economy are met.
Create 30,000 job opportunities every year through an investment plan in food and pharmaceutical industries and in the digital, creative, and tourism sectors.
Finance production sectors with funds from deposits in Lebanon and capital from Lebanese expatriates and international development agencies.
Establish an independent municipal credit fund to develop Lebanon's regional economy according to local characteristics and foster cooperation between municipalities.
Set up special economic zones (artificial intelligence, digital economy,...) to drive innovation and increase exports.
Develop vocational training in partnership with the private sector and facilitate the integration of trainees into the labor market.
Promote local participation in managing the affairs of regions, cities, and villages through administrative and financial decentralization and establish elected councils for Cazas.
Abolish the Qaimaqam position and elect a Caza Council that appoints an administrative body that report back to it.
Transfer some of the central authority powers and the state budget provisions related to regions to the Caza Council and its administrative body.
Ensure citizens’ rights to access information by obliging all public institutions to automatically post it on their websites.
Post all decisions, budgets, accounts, and activities of all departments automatically on their websites.
Exclude confidential information related to national security, after accurately and publicly classifying them as such.
Define a number of projects that should be subject to public consultation, publish them prior to their approval, and define mechanisms to reject them or to offer alternatives.
Read more about the "Power to the People" in the below links:
Approve a draft law for a Personal Status civil code.
To be mandatory.
To be based on the Declaration of Human Rights that Lebanon participated in drafting.
To be compatible with religious rituals and ceremonies.
Establish the Lebanese Senate.
It aims to safeguard the cultural specificities of citizens by monitoring laws and decrees, the performance of government and state agencies, and objecting to them if necessary.
It plays a role in the ratification of crucial decisions and the appointment of senior state officials.
It participates with the parliament in the trial of presidents and ministers.
To be directly elected by the people simultaneously with the parliamentary elections.
To be equally divided between Muslims and Christians.
A high constitutional, legal, and cultural competence is required to run for membership.
Broaden the powers of the Election Supervisory Body and increase its human and logistical capabilities.
Increase the number of the Elections Supervisory Body’s members to include more representatives of civil society and associations known for their election transparency advocacy, as well as university professors who are not affiliated with any political party through membership or practice, and UN-appointed international observers.
Members of the Supervisory Body to be appointed by the Beirut and Tripoli Bar Associations and the Lebanese Judges Association.
Decisions and circulars issued by the Supervisory Body to be binding on the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities.
The Election Supervisory Body should strengthen its team by selecting volunteers or administrative personnel to be delegated at all stages of the electoral process, namely in primary and higher registration committees, in polling stations, and in signing all data.
The Election Supervisory Body should approve or reject the inspector appointed by the candidates.
Lower the voting age to 18 years.
A nation that fears its youth is a failed nation since they are the catalysts of change and accountability.
Read more about the "Lebanon is My Identity" in the below links:
Develop a defense strategy by equipping the army with high-quality weapons from all available sources.
Establish a defense strategy that takes into account Lebanon's capabilities, geography, the nature of the Israeli enemy, and other dangers to its sovereignty, within a maximum period of one year.
Take into consideration experiences and competencies that led to defeating the occupation.
Equip the army with appropriate weapons from any available source without any political consideration other than Lebanon's defense.
Limit arms in the hands of Lebanese legitimate armed forces.
The decision of peace and war should exclusively be taken by the Lebanese government.
No weapons should remain with forces, other than the Lebanese army, under any excuse.
All resistance fighters wishing to enroll in the armed forces should be able to join them. The exact numbers will be determined in a later stage.
Organize a military or civil service within the armed forces to hold all citizens responsible for the defense of Lebanon.
Enforce security measures and impose the rule of law on all the Lebanese territory.
Remove all security zones.
The Lebanese armed forces maintain control over all borders.
Armed forces receive orders exclusively from the Lebanese government, and any interference in their duties is forbidden except in accordance with the law.
Adopt Lebanon's neutralization from all regional conflicts and pursue an active diplomacy that restores its leading role and breaks out its isolation.
Lebanon adopts neutralization from all regional and international conflicts.
Lebanon remains in solidarity with the Palestinian cause, which is rightful and just by all standards, while preserving its sovereignty.
Lebanon restores its role as a space of freedom, a meeting point, and a mediator for resolving regional conflicts.
Set up an international humanitarian and carefully devised plan with relevant actors to ensure the return of Syrian refugees.
Submit a formal request to the United Nations to urge the five Security Council permanent members to impose a buffer zone in Syria. Under the protection of international forces, to receive the displaced Syrians and provide them with decent accommodation requirements.
Call on the European Union and the Arab countries to contribute substantially to financing this step.
Reaffirm the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their land and refuse their resettlement inside Lebanon.
Amid the regional changes and the increasing racism of the Israeli entity towards the Palestinian people, call on the United Nations, the General Assembly, and the Security Council, to reaffirm the right of return for the Palestinians (Resolution 194).
Read more about the "A Neutralized Sovereign State" in the below links:
Represent one of the two genders by 50% in municipal and parliamentary candidacy, as well as in ministerial portfolios and first category administrative positions.
Amend applicable laws to conform to this principle.
Combat discrimination against women through training and awareness campaigns.
Encourage girls through the education system to be interested in technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Right of Lebanese women to pass on their nationality to their children.
Ratify the Lebanese women right to pass on their nationality to their children.
Prevent the marriage of minors and fight violence against women
Pass law to prevent child marriage of girls under the age of 18.
Amend law on Combating Domestic Violence, including the criminalization of marital rape.
Educate girls about the dangers of early marriage on their health and social development.
Read more about the "A Women's Nation" in the below links:
Promote local participation in managing the affairs of regions, cities, and villages through administrative and financial decentralization and establish elected councils for Cazas.
Ensure citizens’ rights to access information by obliging all public institutions to automatically post it on their websites.
Represent one of the two genders by 50% in municipal and parliamentary candidacy, as well as in ministerial portfolios and first category administrative positions.
Right of Lebanese women to pass on their nationality to their children.
Prevent the marriage of minors and fight violence against women.