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Muhammad Choucair wrote in Asharq Al-Awsat: Informed Lebanese political sources said that the Speaker of the Parliament, Nabih Berri, is a focal point in the ongoing consultations to crystallize the name of the candidate enjoying coverage from Sunni leaders to form the new government, as it is the most representative of its sect over other candidates to assume this position.
Sources confirmed to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat that Berri will be the first to be informed of his name, so that he will be able to take advantage of what is required before the start of the binding parliamentary consultations that President Michel Aoun will carry out today to assign to the candidate who has the support of the parliamentary majority to form it.
Political sources noted that the ongoing consultations on the eve of the start of today’s binding parliamentary consultations are not isolated from the group of contacts that French President Emmanuel Macron undertakes before returning again tonight to Beirut, in an attempt to secure a political safety net that pushes to prepare the local environment for the birth of the next government in a natural way. Without colliding with obstacles that would hinder its birth.
He indicated that Macron, although he preferred the presence of the leader of the Future Movement, former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, at the head of the government due to internal and external considerations, among which he highlights that he is the most represented in his sect, but his initiative to announce the Hariri’s reluctance to take over as prime minister did not diminish the level of French interest in the need to assume the presidency. Third, and if he insists on his post, another candidate must be chosen who will be appointed in agreement with the previous heads of government, provided that if the election falls on him, the conditions for success in his mission are met.
The same sources considered that the central role played by spokesperson Berri is due to his ability to communicate with all parties without exception, at a time when President Aoun cannot play a similar role not because others surround him and confiscate his role, but because he delegated to the head of the Free Patriotic Movement, Deputy Gebran. Bassil to play this role on his behalf. Otherwise, what compelled you, when the Speaker met with him, to refer him to Bassil to discuss the file for the change of government based on the need to set a date for the mandatory parliamentary consultations to appoint the designated president? He saw that Aoun was used, during Hariri’s presence at the head of the government, to ask him to return to Bassil to discuss pending and thorny issues, and said that he could not ensure the participation of the opposition in the dialogue meetings he organized in Baabda, in addition to that he encountered a dead end when he decided to make the previous consultations. Consult in an attempt to prioritize authorship over startup.
He said that Berri’s fundamental role is not due to his reluctance and his parliamentary bloc to elect Aoun as president of the Republic or to the fluctuation of his relationship with the “shadow president” Basil, but to his mediating role that allowed to position himself in the middle of the road between loyalty and opposition, especially after Aoun was transformed with full will from A group that has no concern, until further notice, unless Basil floats in light of his retreat on the street. Christian in favor of his opponents, especially after the devastating earthquake that struck Beirut as a result of the explosion that occurred in the port on August 4.
The same sources asked: How can Aoun play the role of political mastermind pushing to hasten the birth of the government after he abandoned the task entrusted to him to play the role of uniting the Lebanese and the sponsor of the dialogue, and What had Basil al-Assad’s participation in the destruction of its internal and external relations and plunging Lebanon into useless confrontations? From his commitment to the ministerial declarations of the governments in which he held ministerial positions, which envisaged the distancing and neutralization of Lebanon from the ongoing conflicts in the region, which led several Arab and Western countries to classify it as belonging to the axis of resistance led by Iran?
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