Mix between proportionality, majority laws does not breach Constitution

Information Minister Melhem Riachi said in an interview with the Orient radio station that "the proportionality law applied with majority corrects representation and does not violate the Constitution." 

Riachi stressed that there is "no return from the 60s law because it makes Christians live in the obsession of their exclusion. I am confident that we will get to an election law in the coming days, and there will be a technical postponement of the elections date." 

"The Druze are a basic component of Mount Lebanon and the country in general, and nothing combines all components more than a mixed law. Absolute proportionality worries some and absolute majority concerns others," Riachi explained. 

He stressed that "the ice has been broken between the Marada movement and the Lebanese Forces party," pointing out that "the aim of his visit to Bnashii was to discuss the subject of transforming the Information Ministry to a Ministry of communication and dialogue," declaring that "MP Sleiman Franjieh was very responsive, and he appointed MP Estphan Douaihy to coordinate with us over this matter." 

"The Ministry of Information has an infrastructure that is ready and adequate both logistical and intellectually, but its productivity is very little," he said, adding that there no longer is a need for official media after the great technological development. 

"Communication is key part in modern media, so I am trying to transform the ministry to one of communication and dialogue," he argued. 

"There is fine line between public freedom and public morals and this line is the Information Minister's duty to preserve," he said on a different note, calling upon the public to "be a powerful judge."

Source :NNA