Why did Hariri delay the formation of the government? .. “No one is forcing me to talk to Basil!”

News: Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri does not care about Lebanon’s exposed political, security and financial situation in all settings. He slows down his mission, refrains from forming a government, and puts obstacles in front of himself and others. Does Hariri want to delay the birth of the government until next year, betting on a new policy in the administration of the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden?

In Beirut, doubts are mounting about the possibility of the birth of the government that Prime Minister Saad Hariri was tasked with forming, in the short term, or even far away. With her, more and more doubts arise about whether the decade she faces is due to pure internal factors related to the dispute between Hariri, on the one hand, and the President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, and the representative Gebran Bassil, on the other, or if it is related to regional and international transformations whose results have not been clear in Aden after the US elections.

As the response that led the government’s deliberations into a coma no longer matters, and whether it was deliberately introduced by the parties involved or not, a constant can no longer be denied, and that is that the country is trapped between a government provisional unable to bear heavy burdens and a postponed government ruled by waiting for something. Beyond the oceans, without taking into account the disintegration of the state structure in all its articulations: security, politics, economy, money and cash.

Despite the impression that the lack of government formation after more than a month of handover is due to the insistence of each party on their demands and conditions, the greatest responsibility undoubtedly falls on Hariri, who clings to the assignment paper in his pocket as he waits for US President Joe Biden to enter the White House, betting on understandings. New to the region and the world, redrawing influence.

The last days did not bring anything new regarding the government. Last week’s calendar was filled with discussions of sensitive files, from the election law to Aoun’s message in Parliament on criminal scrutiny. However, this has nothing to do with the fact that the Prime Minister-designate did not resume his contacts or record any visits to the Baabda Palace. All Hariri does, according to Ma’an, is “complain” about Basil.

Sources familiar with the government file say that Hariri had been advised by various parties in the last period to contact Aoun and Bassil again to form the government, but he used to respond with a prayer. No one is forcing me to talk to Basil! The same sources believe that there is another matter behind the behavior of Hariri, who is now armed with this argument, especially that talking to the head of the “strong Lebanon” bloc is no longer the obstacle, after the French envoy Patrick Durrell assured, during his recent visit to Lebanon. Also, the last decade that was mentioned is the names of Christian ministers and the distribution of portfolios in the Christian class.

In the opinion of these sources, it is difficult to isolate Hariri’s actions from the regional-international climate that surrounds Lebanon at the time of the intensification of the confrontation, but they tend to link them more to considerations that he has related to his test of the politics of the new American administration.

From the beginning, Hariri was not consistent. He thought that he could ignore Basil, as long as he had “woven” with Hizbullah and the Amal movement, with the illusion that they were by his side only because he accepted that they were appointed as Shiite ministers. Hariri then played along the Baabda line, invoking the constitution, to craft a squad in which Aoun would participate alone, noting that he did not “milk cigar with him.” Initially, he suggested that he was open and that he would accept whatever the President of the Republic wanted, including ministries and names, then he returned and turned against him, under the pretext that he was crammed with actions from other Christian parties, until the affairs between them reached their limit, during the last famous meeting in which Aoun was very upset. Hariri and Walid Jumblatt sold two-bag pledges (Health and Social Affairs) and pulled out, prompting Jumblatt to drop some high-ceiling tweets.

And so on, Hariri began tossing papers and tossing them onto the balance and fees table, as his attempts to delay writing until the New Year began to unfold.

Here, the sources of the Department of Analysis expanded to Paris, as it was considered that “Hariri and the French together prefer to freeze authorship until Biden receives delivery, which is expected to reach new understandings with the Europeans and the Gulf states, which could allow the formation of the government in an easier and more beneficial way.” .

On the other hand, sources close to Hariri respond by saying that “the only reason for the delay in writing is that Aoun and Bassil continue to act as if the country is fine, since nothing has changed in their performance.”

The sources affirm that the government “will be born at the moment in which Aoun and Bassil resign their mandates”.

And while it is still certain that Hariri will not apologize, as indicated by a member of the political bureau of the Future Movement, former MP Mustafa Alloush, sources from the Baabda Palace pointed out that “the designated prime minister did not request an appointment with Aoun until last night ”, In response to the information that they spoke of a visit that will take place today, noting that” generally the appointment is requested the same day. “