The Minister of the Economy demands lower prices of goods

After the decline of the dollar parity against the Lebanese pound which thus fell from 23,450 LL / USD, it has 2 weeks at less than 17,000 LL / USD on Monday morning, the outgoing Minister of the Economy Raoul Nehmé called the commercial establishments to quickly lower the prices of the goods, « before tomorrow morning at most », threatening to expose to the most severe sanctions being able to go up to a request of justice to an administrative closure if necessary.

Starting tomorrow, teams from the Ministry of the Economy will have to conduct a series of inspections to verify this drop in the prices of certain foodstuffs.