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The hours leading up to the meeting between President Michel Aoun and the prime minister appointed to form the government, Saad Hariri, had spread, through the intense movement I witnessed, an atmosphere that suggested that the government had entered the final stage of work in labor and that her birth would precede the end of this week.
What strengthened this climate is the direct French presence that led this movement, and reflected, through the impulse of the contacts that included the different levels concerned about the formation of the government, that French President Emmanuel Macron had had enough of “the perpetrators” and their procrastination, and commissioned his adviser, Patrick Durrell, to take them to a house of obedience. The French initiative to stop this disruptive approach that they are following and to understand, even by coercion, a government that translates the requirements of the initiative and its rescue program.
And as confirmed to the “Republic” political sources familiar with French contacts, the new French impulse for the government archive, although it seems that it is an attempt to break the cycle of complications that prevent the birth of the government, and achieve a great advance in the course of its formation, translated in the meeting of Presidents Aoun and Hariri, but it is at the same time, to the extent that it came to expose the inability of the writing team to complete this merit with consensus and understanding which it required, included a further condemnation by France of the Lebanese abuse of the French initiative and their deliberate alteration of its effects and their rescue program, and their disregard for all successive advice and warnings from the international community, as well as the appeals made by the international community. President Macron, the last of which was in his letter to the President of the Republic.
According to the sources, Paris, with his renewed intervention, “this time decided to gather the” unemployed “at the door of the house, after losing confidence in their credibility and in the promises they made about their commitment to the initiative. And it seemed, by his presence through Patrick Dorrell and his intense contacts between Baabda and Beit al-Wasat, and other political levels, that he was throwing the last paper on the table of these unemployed, and the summary of its content: “O form the government, or do what you want yourself, and don’t come back to us when they finally fall ”. .
Informed sources revealed to Al-Jumhuriya that what has come to a foregone conclusion so far is the size of the government in which the final agreement to install the “18 government” was reached, as well as the matter regarding the distribution of ministries between the sects. The dilemma of Christian names, the size of the political forces and the demand of the President of the Republic and his political team remains. With the greater Christian participation in the government that constitutes the “third obstructor”, which is rejected by Hariri, who close to him confirms that the maximum that he can accept are 5 ministers for the president and his team. Sources close to the Republican Palace told Al-Jumhuriya that Hariri, in a meeting last Monday with the President of the Republic, expressed his willingness to accept 6 ministers for President Aoun and his team.
According to the information, Dorrell’s mission focused on this aspect, proposing something like a compromise solution around the complex “Who appoints the ministers?”, According to the French association to appoint in a way that satisfies both parts. As for the Ministry of Energy, it seemed that the French side was not in favor of linking it with any other ministry entrusted to other parties.
(In reference to what the “national movement” considers distinguishing the Shiites from other components and granting them the Ministry of Finance, at a time when the Ministry of Energy is withdrawing from their hand).
The information indicates that the renewed French effort reflected that the Ministry of Energy is at the top of the priorities of Paris, provided that it is carried out by a reliable figure on their part. Although there was information that the name of Joe Sadi, the French proposal to take over this ministry, had been abandoned by the opposition of the Free Patriotic Movement, but sources that accompany the communication movement confirmed to the “Republic” that the name of Sadi would be eliminated should an alternative be found. Point of intersection between Paris and the stream, but so far this character has not been found.
The information adds that the French effort did not reflect a preference for any party to obtain the obstructing third party in the government, but that what it emphasizes is to ignore this issue, since the government that is being formed is a government of specialists, not of politicians, for a specific task. What is surprising about the French effort is that it contradicted everything reported about the “vetoes” applied to some parties and prevented their participation in the government (Hezbollah in particular), since this effort reflected that the French objective is to accelerate the formation of a government of specialists, not politicians, that you accept All political forces. Sources familiar with the French position told the “Republic”: There is no external factor impeding the formation of the government in Lebanon, and that the French acceleration in the formation of a government implies a clear indication that this government is formed on the basis of the French initiative, which still has the full support of the international community. And specifically on the American side.
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