At the height of a campaign portraying the purchase of property in certain areas by “a segment of the Lebanese” as a “demographic threat”... Al-Akhbar reveals: The justice minister makes the right to own property contingent on municipal approval!

Bintjbeil: Mujtaba al-Husseini wrote in Al-Akhbar: Talk of “protecting” Lebanese areas from “a segment of the Lebanese” buying property there is no longer whispered. For months, a political and media campaign has been unfolding, presenting buying and selling in specific areas as a “demographic threat,” until a headline such as “Buying property…”