November 14, 2026
Member of the “Development and Liberation” bloc, MP Qabalan Qabalan, during his meeting with a delegation from the activists of the town of Sohmar in the Western Bekaa, discussed the real estate and administrative obstacles that impede the completion of citizens’ transactions and delay the start of the reconstruction workshop in the region, calling for simplifying procedures and implementing laws to protect the rights of the people.
The visiting delegation included Mayor Muhammad Al-Khashin and Mukhtar Hassan Qamar, along with an elite group of engineers, lawyers, and those interested in real estate affairs. The discussion focused on old real estate objections that affect more than half of the town’s real estate, and which are still pending before the real estate judge in Zahle, depriving rights holders, especially those wishing to build, from disposing of their properties.
The attendees discussed ways to speed up the administrative procedures related to clearances and contracts submitted to the real estate judge, with the aim of reducing the burdens on citizens. In this regard, Representative Qabalan explained that registering the majority of properties jointly, with many owners of one property, creates complications for the people when they want to build, whether in real estate departments or in division transactions.
Qabalan drew attention to the noticeable slowness in the work of the real estate judiciary in the region, stressing that he will communicate with the judicial authorities and the Ministry of Justice to address this file and speed up the completion of transactions to meet the urgent needs of the people.
Regarding the reconstruction file, the MP pointed out the continued difficulties and obstacles and the absence of work starting so far, criticizing the “rigor” of some security agencies in dealing with this file and not providing facilities to citizens. He called for overcoming administrative obstacles and restoring conditions to those before the Israeli aggression, stressing the follow-up of this sensitive file with the concerned official authorities.
In a separate context, Qabalan stressed the need for the relevant institutions to adhere to the laws issued during the past months, at the forefront of which is the exemptions law for the Western Bekaa and Rashaya regions, which stipulates exempting citizens from electricity, water, telephone, and municipal fees for the year 2025.
He called on the concerned institutions, especially the Electricity of Lebanon and the Bekaa Water Corporation and the Communications Authority, to stop issuing bills immediately, stressing that the law is clear and includes all the villages of the Western Bekaa and Rashaya, just like the devastated areas in the south, and warning against burdening the people with any additional financial burdens for the coming year.
These moves come in light of the escalation of real estate and administrative challenges in the villages of the Western Bekaa and Rashaya, amid continued faltering reconstruction efforts, and continued emphasis on the necessity of accelerating the completion of transactions and activating exemptive laws for the benefit of citizens.
