Kataeb Party leader, MP Samy Gemayel, on Wednesday called for the abolition of Lebanon’s Supreme Council for the Trial of Presidents and Ministers, urging that all public officials accused of misconduct be tried before the regular judiciary, not exceptional or special courts.

Gemayel’s remarks came during a parliamentary session in which MPs voted to refer former Telecommunications Ministers Boutros Harb, Nicolas Sehnaoui, and Jamal Jarrah to a parliamentary investigative committee over corruption allegations linked to their tenures.

“I object to both the process and the mechanism by which the referral of these ministers is being handled,” Gemayel said, stressing that real accountability cannot be achieved through a system that relies on politically influenced or extraordinary tribunals.

The Supreme Council for the Trial of Presidents and Ministers, a rarely activated constitutional body, has never successfully prosecuted a case, despite decades of public corruption allegations and administrative mismanagement.