Summary
Parliament is set to hold two sessions Tuesday despite opposition from protesters and amid calls to block roads leading to the assembly in Downtown Beirut.
A parliamentary session to elect committee members followed by a legislative session were initially scheduled for last Tuesday, but Speaker Nabih Berri postponed them for a week for security reasons.
The sessions are expected to be held amid a heightened security presence around Nijmeh Square to ensure MPs' access to Parliament.
Gen. Imad Othman, discussing security measures that the ISF would carry out during the parliamentary sessions.
Holding the parliamentary session has angered protesters, who have used social media to publicize a plan to form a human chain to close off the roads and areas leading to Parliament, starting at 7 a.m.
MPs from the Lebanese Forces, Democratic Gathering and Kataeb Party, and independent MPs Osama Saad, Fouad Makhzoumi and Paula Yacoubian said they would boycott the parliamentary session.
In response to the protesters' demands, Saad Hariri resigned as a prime minister on Oct. 29 and was tasked by President Michel Aoun to continue working as a caretaker prime minister.
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