[ad_1]
The Maronite patriarch, Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi, affirmed that “the famine of 1914 gave birth to Greater Lebanon, and the events we are experiencing today reached a climax with the explosion of the port, and I believe that a new Lebanon will be born.”
On the eve of the celebration of the centenary of the birth of Greater Lebanon, the Maronite Patriarch, Mar Bechara Boutros Al-Rai, told MTV: “The famine of 1914 gave birth to Greater Lebanon and the events we experience today reached a climax with the explosion of the port and I believe that a new Lebanon will be born. “
He added: “We are faced with a new birth that we must all fulfill and we must strive for a system of active neutrality.”
He continued: “The state must be freed from corruption, its foreign policy and governance must be corrected, and we must implement the constitution because it is the path to state-building, which is not happening, and the Taif Agreement has not been fulfilled. , neither in letter nor in spirit. “
And he considered that there is no salvation for the state except by returning to its basic being, which is neutrality.
Regarding the port issue, he said: “Given the magnitude of the great disaster that occurred in the port explosion, an international investigation must be carried out to help the local Judicial Power.”
His Beatitude stressed that the country cannot tolerate and we are waiting for a government to be formed, and if it was in the approach of previous governments, some quota between the parliamentary blocs, that does not bode well.
He believed that the government of national unity is “a laugh” because it brings together groups that do not trust each other, and we hope that the new prime minister will form an emergency and miniature government that includes personalities that do not belong to anyone and are not presented by nobody: the new government must work fast and have legislative powers to make quick decisions, otherwise we will stay We are in our place and we hope that the President-designate will do it, otherwise our situation will be worse than us.
Al-Rahi said: “I support the revolution because I see in it a ray of hope, and we must work with it so that it is a civilized revolution and not chaos, and we are holding meetings with the revolutionary groups. We are concerned that the revolution will not take place. escape and become demagogic, and that is what we are working on, and those who break and destroy have infiltrated its ranks and must “protect it so that it is at the level we expect.”
The sponsor felt that our people respect and love authority, but authority does not respect or love people.
On the possibility that one day he would ask for the resignation of the president of the republic, he replied: “Of course not.”
He stressed that “the government is responsible and the parliament is not the president, and I call parliamentary elections as soon as possible”, explaining that “there is no tension between the president of the republic and me, and I visit him whenever there are question marks and we are frank about the issues. “
Patriarch Al-Rahi asked: “What is the new political contract? What is required is a system of active neutrality, and our reality needs a stability pact, and if the triangle is intended and is being worked on under the table, then we will reject him at the table and wage a moral war against him because this is the death of Lebanon, “noting that
“Lebanon is a civil state, so we separate religion from state, but we make it a state of sects.”
And Patriarch Al-Rahi added: “We are with the mandatory nature of civil law and the culmination of the spirituality of the National Pact with administrative decentralization and the Senate, which is a guarantee for all and not to create a ‘bogeyman’. There is a Constitution.” We must distinguish between the resistance and the problem of weapons, and the state has to solve this problem, but why leave this issue? “Create internal problems until the accusation reaches me with the work? Let’s sit at the same table and create the Lebanese fabric, because we have a sect, which is Lebanon.”
Patriarch Al-Rahi explained: “I was waiting for a response from” Hezbollah “and an explanation instead of accusing me of being an agent, because there was no response of treason, and I was waiting for a meeting with” Hezbollah “to speak. on various issues, and this is what I told the Iranian ambassador when he visited me, revealing that “The relationship with” Hezbollah “has been broken since the day I visited Jerusalem to receive the Pope.”
Patriarch Al-Rahi concluded his interview with MTV by revealing what he would say to French President Emmanuel Macron during their meeting: “I will express our thanks and appreciation for the last two visits to him.
Source: Kataeb.org
[ad_2]
