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The An-Nahar newspaper wrote:
Although the hopes linked to the movement or effort launched by the Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi between the President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun and the Head of the Free Patriotic Movement, MP Gebran Bassil on the one hand, and the designated Prime Minister Saad Hariri, on the other, can help overcome obstacles. Faced with the formation of the government, he was weak in the first place, but no one expected an escalating offensive situation to tackle him the day after the move, as if he intended to abort it as soon as possible.
The sharp offensive stance issued in a statement from the political body of the “Free Patriotic Movement” yesterday afternoon, which had not yet passed twenty-four hours since the visit of the current head of the movement, Basil Lobkirki, generated clear impressions that the movement was responding implicitly to Sayed Bkerke as he launched his heavy attack on Prime Minister Hariri. It seems clear that Patriarch Al-Ra’i’s public position in Baabda did not satisfy either President Aoun or Representative Bassil, especially in terms of Al-Ra’i’s toughness in rejecting the blockade of the third of any group and his strong support for a government of specialists, as well as its emphasis on commitment to constitutional principles in composition, which means that the appointed Prime Minister presents his training to the President of the republic to issue the government by consensus. These are three essential points that formed a strong implicit and moral support for Prime Minister Hariri, who always defends them, which explains the sharp arrows of the Free Patriotic Movement against Hariri the day after the sponsor’s move.
And if the Future Movement did not overcome the attack of the Aounist movement without a quick response, then the whole scene, which is recovering escalation and escalation, but the political and media explosion reveals, indisputably, that the path of government formation is it has returned to a reality more complicated, obstructed and disrupted than at any time before in the light of political sniper fire. From the Aounist movement, on the movement of Patriarch Al-Rai on the one hand, and the severe escalation of tension between Baabda and Bassil on the one hand, and Hariri on the other. However, it was notable that Patriarch Al-Rahi was determined to continue his movement, as he revealed a long contact that took place between him and Prime Minister Hariri last Friday afternoon, that is, after his meeting with him. President Aoun in Baabda and Deputy Bassil in Bkerke, and the sponsor informed Hariri during the call about the results of the two meetings.
Yesterday afternoon, Patriarch Dr. Ghattas Khoury received a delegate from Prime Minister Hariri, and the information reported that the sponsor’s position remained consistent with what he declared from Baabda that there is a government of specialists and in terms of commitment to the constitutional principles in the formation of the government so that the president in charge presents his formation to the president of the republic and they agree to issue it and that in terms of consideration. The disabled third party is a stranger and unnecessary. After Khoury’s visit to Bkerke, he and former minister Sajaan Azzi went to the headquarters, where they met with Prime Minister Hariri.
However, the Free Patriotic Movement, through its political body headed by Bassil, attacked Hariri and accused him of trying to nullify the constitutional authority of the President of the Republic as a full partner in authorship. He also accused Hariri of insisting on breaking the pact and not adopting a single and clear criterion. Finally, he accused him of working to return to the time of marginalization and the erosion of rights. The Future Movement was quick to respond, considering that the leadership of the Free Patriotic Movement insists on the policy of fleeing forward and overthrowing the constitutional standard for the formation of governments stipulated in article 64 of the Constitution. He said that returning to the tone of the same criteria is a rejected attempt to circumvent the French initiative, accusing the leadership of the movement of campaigning. Sectarianism through fabricated news about the president-designate’s insistence on appointing Christian ministers, and concluded with certainty that the third blockade will not be established for him after today.
And consequently, the “movement” responded to Al-Mustaqbal’s response, accusing him of circumventing Article 53 of the Constitution, which speaks of issuing the decree that forms the government by agreement between the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister, and that he was the first to achieve the existing agreement on the government of specialists in the French initiative by appointing a political prime minister with distinction and not a specialist and struck the principle of specialization by insisting on merging separate portfolios with a minister. On the issue of the obstructed third party, he said: “No one has the right to prevent any Lebanese component from participating in an active and balanced way in national governance and decision-making, and will not have a list of those who believe otherwise.” Al-Mustaqbal returned and responded to the movement by pointing out that “Article 53 is another aspect of Article 64 that is issued and does not constitute.”
Source: Kataeb.org
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