Lebanon’s government on Tuesday approved the allocation of 360 billion Lebanese pounds ($18 mln) for parliamentary elections, a minister who attended the cabinet meeting told Reuters. Lebanon went into financial meltdown in 2019 and some officials had raised concerns over elections potentially being postponed due to financial constraints. Lebanon is in the throes of the worst financial and economic crisis in its history that has sunk the once middle-class country into poverty. The crisis is rooted in years of corruption and mismanagement by the same political class that has ruled for years. Le…