The following are a selection of stories from Lebanese newspapers that may be of interest to Daily Star readers. The Daily Star cannot vouch for the accuracy of these reports.
Al-Joumhouria
Bou Saab: I will do all I can to hold exams June 12
Education Minister Elias Bou Saab said he will do all he can to hold official school exams on June 12.
“I cannot set another date and postponing the exams again is out of question,” Bou Saab told Al-Joumhouria.
Bou Saab said there is a “serious effort” to resolve the controversial salary raise bill.
Meanwhile, Nehme Mahfoud, head of the Private Schools Teachers Association, insisted on boycotting both “correcting and proctoring official exams.”
He said that while Bou Saab has postponed the exams by 5 days, in the hope of reaching an agreement in Parliament on June 10, he is not
"I don’t see a solution in sight, because politicians are divided on the [pay hike] issue,” Mahfoud told Al-Joumhouria.
An-Nahar
Rifi: No intention to cripple Cabinet
Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi said ministers “have no intention to disrupt the Cabinet.”
"And today’s [Cabinet] meeting will show that,” Rifi told An-Nahar.
He said the only item left for Cabinet to discuss was the signing of the decrees – whether this is something that concerns all ministers or the Prime Minister and relevant ministers alone.
Al-Akhbar
March 14 sources rule out agreement during Cabinet session
March 14 sources said there are positive signs among ministers, but ruled out reaching an agreement on a mechanism of action during Tuesday’s Cabinet session.
“As of last night, there was no sign of an agreement," one source told Al-Akhbar.
"Also, discussions on this issue would have to be postponed if ministers Gebran Bassil, Elias Bou Saab and Sejaan Azzi are absent [from the meeting],”
the source added.
Separately, sources in the March 14 Secretariat General told Al-Akhbar that Hezbollah would not risk its relationship with Bkirki because the party is in need of a Maronite umbrella, particularly in the presidential election.
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