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Kanaan: Post-2022 Budget Accounts Do Not Exist, and Their Absence Blocks Oversight of Government Work

MP Ibrahim Kanaan's remarks addressed the issue of the Lebanese state's financial accounts, noting that the government referred only the 2022 budget accounts while no accounts exist for the following years. He linked the absence of these accounts to the impossibility of effective oversight of government work, and set out priorities related to restructuring the public sector, addressing the financial gap and completing the accounts up to 2025.

📍 Where things stand: The matter remains open at the level of Parliament's Finance Committee, which has been demanding the financial accounts since 2010, amid the absence of accounts for the years after 2022.

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26 Oct 2026, 13:32 MP Ibrahim Kanaan said the government referred the 2022 budget accounts, but that the accounts for the years after it do not exist, describing the sidelining of oversight as very bad.
26 Oct 2026, 13:36 After the Finance Committee meeting, Kanaan told "Lebanon Debate" that the Lebanese state's financial accounts, which the committee has been demanding since 2010, are a fundamental issue because their absence prevents effective oversight of government work. He set three priorities: first, restructuring the public sector; second, addressing the financial gap awaiting the necessary negotiations with the International Monetary Fund; and third, completing the financial accounts, which are supposed to reach 2025.

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