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On Thursday, the Al-Akhbar newspaper wrote that while Beirut awaited the results of Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri’s overseas tour, new data emerged yesterday that left the impression that pressing regional-international efforts could lead to the acceleration of government management. birth, represented by a meeting that Hariri met with French President Emmanuel Macron during a working dinner at the French presidential palace, the Elysee.
According to a statement from Hariri’s office, “The two-hour meeting addressed the latest regional developments and Prime Minister Hariri’s efforts to restore Lebanon’s Arab relations and rally support for him in the face of the crises he faces, in addition to that of France and your country. the President’s efforts to prepare international support for Lebanon as soon as a government capable of carrying out the necessary reforms to halt the economic collapse and rebuild what was destroyed in Beirut as a result of the port explosion last August is formed ». “Presidents Hariri and Macron discussed the internal Lebanese difficulties that hinder the formation of the government and possible ways to overcome them.”
Informed sources told Al-Akhbar that “Paris has opened its doors to Hariri because the French have serious proposals that would overcome the obstacles facing the birth of the government, and they are betting on a default.” If there had been no progress in this regard, this extraordinary visit would not have come at a time when France is preventing entry to any visitor from outside the European Union ”.
The same sources considered that “the condition for the success of the French endeavor this time depends on the approach presented by Paris”, mainly because “its previous initiative, which was led by the advisor to the French president for Near East Affairs, Patrick Durrell, to Lebanon last November, he leaned towards Hariri’s demands, and supported him in relation to the government formula, the number of ministries, the distribution of portfolios and the choice of names in which Paris participated ”, and if“ the new effort takes the same approach, it will be doomed.
The Macron-Hariri meeting continued to be subject to many interpretations. While the data in Beirut remains vague and does not indicate developments that will undo the knots controlling the government crisis, most political forces are almost unanimous as a crisis that is likely to continue for a long time, along lines that cannot be reversed. . . The president-designate, Saad Hariri, arrives and wanders from state to state, and what is being sought in Baabda is one of the initiates.
And while waiting for what the new French effort will bring, which can be followed by subsequent steps and contacts, it has been possible to monitor more than one piece of data that confirms that attempts to bring in a government have not yet matured. The contact that Hariri made with the president of the Progressive Socialist Party, Walid Jumblatt, “did not bring anything that could be trusted”, and Baabda, confirming that “there were no contacts with the President of the Republic of Paris or any other place, and even if this matter happened, the solution would be to consult Hariri with Aoun. No, not through mediators ”, while the Futuro Movement cartel rushed to respond to the news reported by the channel“ Otto V ”that“ Hariri is working on a proposal with French support, which is solving the complex of the number of ministers raising it from 18 to twenty ”. A political source explained to The “future of the web” is that this “falls into the category of wishes rather than facts, and that nothing has changed so far in the governmental way.”
In addition to that, follow-up sources revealed several ideas that were being discussed in order to converge views, including the invitation of Hariri and MP Gebran Bassil to France, and the holding of a reconciliation meeting between them, but one idea that soon fell. after the French warned that it was “unpleasant for my team.” Shock ». A solution to one of the basic contracts represented by the justice and interior ministries was also reported, which is for France to appoint two acceptable ministers for Aoun and Hariri, but the president of the republic “will not accept this, and refuses to seek the help of the French to pressure him “.
