The head of the Parliamentary Youth and Sports Committee, Representative Simon Abi Ramia, indicated that “the committee hopes in the sports dimension that the American player Omari Spielmani be in the national basketball team, but there is a constitutional problem due to the absence of a president for the republic, and therefore this power is one of the close powers of the presidency.” Republic, regardless of the subject of the approval of the majority of the Council of Ministers.
Abi Ramia pointed out, in a televised interview, that “the committee is communicating with those concerned at the constitutional or ministerial level, in order to search for the possibility of a fatwa and find a loophole for this issue,” stressing that “the committee is not likely to create a constitutional precedent at this stage, and there is an agreement in The committee, which is composed of deputies from various political persuasions, is to assist in this matter.
He added, “There is a plurality of opinions on the issue of the powers of the presidency and the current cabinet, which lacks parliamentary confidence.”
