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Sources told the Kuwaiti “Al-Qabas” that if the French do not intervene quickly to save their initiative, they should apologize and name the saboteurs.
The two-week period granted by the French president to the Lebanese political forces to form the government has expired with no indication of his imminent birth. Rather, recent data points to a dead end, thus freezing the French initiative if not overthrowing it. The parliamentary consultations carried out by President Michel Aoun over the past two days ended where they began: the “Shiite duo” clung to the money wallet and the right to appoint Shiite ministers in a way that would guarantee the obstructed third party, returning thus the negotiations to zero. Either the prime minister-designate, Mustafa Adib, accepts these conditions, or the initiative collapses from its foundations and a new stage of political commitment ensues.
Faced with this stubbornness, there was talk of a recent visit by the head of the French foreign intelligence service, Bernard Emie, to Beirut, which, if it happened, would indicate whether Paris is committed to the success of its initiative and the degree of its willingness to enter into a showdown with Hezbollah.
Political circles see the words of the Secretary of State of the United States, Mike Pompeo, in which he asked if France was willing to support Washington against Iran.
These circles believe that Pompeo’s call on the French to withdraw their recognition of Hezbollah and designate it as a terrorist organization may precipitate the failure of the initiative. The position of the president and his team is consistent with that of the Shiite duo. President Aoun decided, through parliamentary consultations, to wage a battle of powers that Mustafa Adeeb extracted from him, armed with his constitutional right, but Aoun leaned on the parliamentary majority with his allies, trying to impose his point of view .
According to some of the participants in these consultations, Aoun asked the blocks three questions about their opinion of rotating the bags, their agreement to choose Adeeb the names of their representatives in the government, as well as their agreement to assign two portfolios to each minister . It is likely that Aoun will inform the president-designate of the outcome of his consultations, and that the blocs will not give confidence to a government that is not a partner in the formation and selection of its ministers.
Faced with these facts, he becomes an author before two options: either submit to the conditions of the parliamentary majority or apologize. Sources indicate that if the French do not intervene quickly to save their initiative, a courteous apology would be required and the spoilers should be named.
Source: Al Qabas
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