Ghassan Moukheiber is a member of the Lebanese Parliament and president of the Lebanese chapter of the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption. Moukheiber headed the legal drafting committee for the Bill on the Right of Access to Information, which was submitted to parliament before the June elections. He spoke with Executive about the bill’s philosophy and financial implications. E What rights of access to information do Lebanese citizens currently have? Access to information exists in a number of scattered regulations. However, there are a number of areas that we [are] try[ing] to improve in the bill we submitted. There has been a publication issued by the Lebanese Transparency Association, mapping the various rights that already exist, which can be found in a multiplicity of laws. However, there are many hindrances because there is no clear understanding in the actual regulation that access to information should be ‘the principal’ and
