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The Maronite patriarch, Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros Al-Ra’i, entered the Lebanese government through its wide door, following the visit of the prime minister in charge of forming the government, Saad Hariri, to Bkerke two days ago, which required a swift move towards the Republican Palace, followed three hours after the visit of the head of the Change and Reform Block. MP Gebran Bassil to Bkerke. It seemed clear that there was a vital and direct relationship between the long, elaborate and detailed discussions that took place between Prime Minister Hariri and Patriarch Al-Rahi in Bkerke, and the patriarch’s rush yesterday to meet with President Aoun first, and then his initiative to invite MP Bassil to meet him in Bkerke, seeking to press everything possible to speed up the elimination of complications. That prevents a quick birth of the government. The fact is that the pastor’s speech in the Baabda Palace after the hour and a half meeting between him and President Aoun contained important messages through which it was clear that the pastor intended to warn that the continuation of the The situation as it is is no longer possible, and will not be correct without major serious repercussions and the most prominent sources say These messages, repeated on several occasions, represent the urgency of forming a government based on its adherence to constitutional principles of composition, and not to any other channel in accordance with the French initiative. Likewise, the other prominent message arose in light of his clear position on the unconstitutionality of the question of the obstructed third party, although he even denied that the President of the Republic adhered to this condition, that the Patriarch, like everyone else, recognizes that it was and it remains one of the basic contracts in the way of forming the government. As for the third message, it acquired a special meaning in terms of the emergence of the Patriarch’s conviction, implicitly that the structure of government must coincide with the specifications of the government of apolitical and partisan specialists. The data available in this context reveals that the sponsor’s position, shown here, is close to Hariri’s position on the formation of the government, it came in the middle of what is being said. About Hariri appointing only Christian ministers and Hariri briefing al-Ra’i in detail on the details of the issues and the full composition of the names and portfolios,
However, the information from the Al-Akhbar newspaper went further. Sources noted that the meeting, which lasted approximately two hours, between the sponsor and Bassil witnessed an “in-depth discussion” on the government record and on the “need to preserve the national alliance.” During which Bassil responded to the pastor’s inquiries, and responded “one point” to what the president-designate brought Bkerke two days ago. Regarding the composition process, the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement confirmed with the facts that Hariri appointed the Christian ministers in the formation that led to the Baabda Palace, including contradicting the latter’s assertions that the names included in his formation were selected from a list previously presented by the President of the Republic. He stressed that Aoun “did not give any name to Hariri. He mentioned names eligible for minister during meetings with the designated president, so the latter only chose some of them, considering that it was the president who proposed them.” The sources continue: Bassil indicated that the matter “is not related to the proposed names, and some of them may be good, but with reference to the constitution, in which article 53 stipulates that the prime minister forms the government with the president of the republic, not that the prime minister names the formation and takes it to the president of the republic to take fingerprints ”. He also pointed out that “what is currently being done is an attempt to remove the title of head of state from the president of the republic and make him president of the Republic of the current only, by restricting the conversation with him to a part of the quota Christian instead of having a central role, and his opinion in all the names of all the sects, and in the ministerial distribution “. “And their full participation in the formation of the government is not limited to a participation only. In this it hits the logic of the association and the position of the presidency.” Furthermore, “there is an attempt to attack what we have previously tested on the authorship process. According to the follow-up sources, they made clear that there was agreement between Aoun and the sponsor on the importance of resuming the meetings between Aoun and Hariri to address the existing problems, especially when Aoun told the sponsor that there is no personal problem with Hariri, and that communication and meeting are somehow. Sources made it clear that the formation of the government should not take this long, if Hariri took the statements by the president of the republic, the real partner in its formation, and discussed it, so an initiative of the designated president is required, sources conclude.
World Correspondent.
