"This is a very important indication of how dysfunctional the government is and how incapable it is of dealing with the basic demands of the population,"said Mario Abou Zeid,a research analyst at the Carnegie Middle East Centre in Beirut.
The current garbage crisis also did not bode well for the government's ability to deal with the country's other problems,he said."If on such local matters they can't even function and agree,how can they agree on the bigger issues?"he said.
The civil war in neighbouring Syria and the more than 1.2 million refugees who have fled to Lebanon are taxing the economy and the government's ability to provide services. Political divisions have left the country without a president for 14 months,and the current parliament extended its own mandate last year,essentially re-electing itself after failing to agree on a law to govern new elections.