November 12, 2026
Nine years after the year to which the allocations belong, the funds of the Independent Municipal Fund for the year 2017 returned to the forefront, following the issuance of five regulatory decrees requiring the distribution of allocations allocated for lighting, construction and cleaning works in Lebanese villages where there are no municipal councils.
The Presidency of the Lebanese Republic announced, via the “X” platform today, Thursday, November 12, 2026, the issuance of Decree Nos. 4297, 4298, 4299, 4300, and 4301. These decrees cover villages that are not equipped with municipalities and are distributed among the governorates of: Nabatieh, South Lebanon, Mount Lebanon, Bekaa, North Lebanon, Akkar, and Baalbek-Hermel.
According to the approved administrative mechanism, the process of distributing funds will be subject to decisions issued by the competent commissioners in each region, provided that the procedures are completed with the approval of the concerned governors.
These developments come to highlight a time paradox represented by the issuance of the decrees distributing the 2017 allocations in November 2026, that is, after about nine years, at a time when the announcement of the Presidency of the Republic did not include the disclosure of the total financial values of those amounts or the reasons behind the delay in issuing the decrees until this time.
It is noteworthy that the new decrees received the official signatures of the President of the Republic, General Joseph Aoun, the Prime Minister, Dr. Nawaf Salam, the Minister of Finance, Yassin Jaber, and the Minister of Interior and Municipalities, Ahmed Al-Hajjar.
