Lebanon’s independence anniversary passes without celebration

Lebanon will commemorate the independence anniversary tomorrow (Sunday) without celebrations, amid the ambiguity surrounding efforts to form the next government that has not been formed since the resignation of President Hassan Diab, following the bombing of the port of Beirut. on August 4.
The impossibility of forming a new government, a month after Prime Minister Saad Hariri was appointed to form it, is one of the most prominent crises that plague the Lebanese scene, given that the worsening of the living and economic crises requires its solution to a government that meets the aspirations of the international community and implements reforms, allowing the international community to provide assistance. To Lebanon.
The stuttering, new demands and obstacles aroused widespread discontent in political circles, expressed by the Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri, in a short sentence in which he said: “Independence began with a government”, referring to the first government formed after Lebanon gained its independence on November 22, 1943. It asked: “Where are we?”, referring to the inability to form a government that works now.
The Maronite Patriarch, Bechara Al-Rai, confirmed yesterday that “our situation is not normal in Lebanon and the proof is that they cannot form a government after a year of confusion.” Al-Rahi recalled: “We went through a revolution and the resignation of the government, then the Crown epidemic, and then the Hassan Diab government, and it was not accepted either internally or externally, so he resigned. After that, Ambassador Mustafa Adeeb was unable to form a government, so he apologized, and Prime Minister Saad Hariri came and neither could, at a time when half of Beirut was destroyed and the victims fell, and the state He seemed to be preoccupied only with fighting over bags and rations, as if we were living in another world. The sponsor said: “The reason is not only internal ties, but external ones. This led us to ask in last Sunday’s sermon: Are we facing the process of bringing down Lebanon 100 years after the birth of Greater Lebanon?”
He denounced the current method of political action in Lebanon, “totally and completely, and we do not exclude anyone,” adding: “Everyone is responsible for it.” Nobody showed willingness to sacrifice their interests, at a time when the whole country was flying. He attacked politicians saying: “You looted the state and secured your money. You don’t realize what hunger and unemployment are because you don’t work. The working countries pay you.”
For its part, the Supreme Council of Melkite Greek Catholics expressed its disapproval of “ the delay in the formation of the government, while the divorce and the gulf between a people humiliated at the doors of banks, hospitals, pharmacies and schools, and political forces that fight for quotas and reject concessions, openness and cooperation with states and institutions that support Lebanon, through trafficking. In the French initiative and the selection of competent and impartial specialists, subject to conscience before any other criterion of dependency, at a time when the risk of total collapse increases, the Lebanese people are punished for not holding accountable the performance of officials during the last years.
Although the independence celebrations were canceled by the Corona virus, President Michel Aoun sent tonight (Saturday) a message to the Lebanese on the occasion of the seventy-seventh anniversary of independence, through the media, in which addresses current affairs in light of recent events.
On the 77th anniversary of independence, the commander of the Armed Forces, General Joseph Aoun, addressed the “order of the day” to the military, in which he stated that “the military establishment is currently waging, with official and popular support, the battle to demarcate borders with the Israeli enemy, “noting that it” does not compromise national sovereignty. ” That “does not tolerate those who disturb the civil peace.”
He called on the soldiers to be “fully alert and prepared in the face of the enemies of Lebanon. The Israeli enemy does not hesitate to launch threats to attack our land, and its aggressive intentions towards us have not stopped, and the terrorist cells have not stopped. they have stopped planning to alter our internal stability. ” He said: “The bet is on you to face these dangers and avoid fighting, so do not tolerate those who disturb the security and stability of the homeland, and do not tolerate those who try to harm the supreme national interest and alter civil peace. “.