Lebanon's parliament passed the 2020 budget on Monday although its finance committee chief said the forecast revenues might be unrealistic as the country wrestles with a major economic and financial crisis.
The 2020 budget envisages a deficit of around 7% of GDP, the head of parliament's budget and finance committee, Ibrahim Kanaan, told Reuters, wider than the originally hoped-for 0.6% with the
economy shrinking and choked by a liquidity crunch.
As lawmakers convened to debate the budget,
protesters hurled rocks at
police who were deployed in force around parliament.