For second session in the week, the 128 lawmakers took their seats again to compose the 16 working committees of the legislative body.

The conclusion of this process put an end to the organizational program within the Parliament and cleared the way to hold the binding consultations towards the formation of the new government.

On Tuesday, during two times of the day, the parliamentarians appointed the representatives of the committees of administration and justice, finance, health, refugees, treasury, budget, media, works and energy, sports, environment, women and children, and agriculture and tourism.

Since May 22, Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s cabinet has been working on an interim way following the legislative elections held a week earlier.

Lebanon recognizes 18 confessions of faith, and the national pact for independence from France in 1943 established that the president of the Republic must be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Sunni Muslim and the head of Parliament a Shiite, and so on with the other positions.

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