📰 1 source 4 articles · 26 Oct 2026, 13:32 → 18 days ago

Kanaan demands disclosure of state accounts, says absence of oversight is very bad

MP Kanaan's statements addressed the file of Lebanon's state financial accounts: he noted that the government referred the 2022 closure accounts while the accounts of the following years are missing, warning of the impact on oversight of government work. After the Finance Committee meeting he called for disclosing state finances, setting out three main points: restructuring the public sector, addressing the financial gap ahead of negotiations with the IMF, and completing the accounts up to 2025.

📍 Where things stand: The file remains open: Kanaan's call to disclose state finances and complete the accounts up to 2025 has not been accompanied by any announced implementation.

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26 Oct 2026, 13:32 MP Kanaan said the government referred the closure of the 2022 accounts, but the closure accounts for the years after it do not exist, describing the absence 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.
26 Oct 2026, 13:36 Kanaan said the public sector must first be restructured, second the financial gap awaiting the necessary negotiation process with the IMF must be addressed, and third the financial accounts, which are supposed to extend to 2025, must be completed.
26 Oct 2026, 14:37 Kanaan demanded the disclosure of the state's finances, amid a reference to a balance in the figures and missing accounts.

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