BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman refused Wednesday to sign a controversial new rent bill into law, arguing that it was unfair.
Sleiman has said he would not sign any unjust law or one that does not further social justice.
The president’s signature is necessary for the law, which has been recently endorsed by Parliament, to go into effect.
Longtime tenants have been holding protests urging Sleiman not to sign the rent law.
In turn, landlords have held several counterdemonstrations, urging Sleiman to sign it.
Parliament passed dozens of draft bills in a series of sessions earlier this year. The president has signed all of the laws except the controversial draft rent bill. The other laws, which covered a range of topics from domestic violence to Civil Defense volunteers, will go into effect after they are published in the Official Gazette.
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