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The Maronite patriarch, Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros Al-Rai, stressed that “the government of salvation is the most important, be it a technocratic government or something else. This is a detail in the sense that Lebanon needs reforms to face economic problems and We need a government of exceptional salvation. “
And he said in a televised interview that “it would have been better if former Prime Minister Saad Hariri had waited for the binding parliamentary consultations, and after that, the president-designate has enough time to undertake the consultations he is conducting today.”
Regarding the Beirut port explosion, he said: “Today I sit with the affected people who lost their most precious possession as a result of the Beirut explosion. They have rights and everyone disapproves of this delay in the judiciary, so it is unreasonable after 70 days as if there had been no explosion. No state took care of the people, so we said that the Judiciary should help with the international investigation because we are not facing a traffic accident, but a disaster, and we are sad because state officials are acting as if there were nothing. “
Al-Rahi considered that “he does not envy the next prime minister appointed for his position, because this earthquake needs people who make sacrifice and dedication, and this is something that needs the effort and solidarity of all parties and parliamentary blocs.”
He said: “We are present in all lands to meet the needs of the people, but in the end we are not the state”, considering that “like a ship that lost its compass and we are in the middle of a sea beaten by political and economic winds and financially, Lebanon was a country of prosperity and goodness, and we have to think about why we got here. “
Al-Rahi noted that “on July 5, in a normal sermon, I spoke about the reduction of the political decision, about the neutrality that Lebanon needs, and we talked about that we are a member state of the international community, and there are decisions issued by the Security Council for Lebanon and the land of Lebanon, and the call for neutrality caused a great impact, and we explained our concept of neutrality, which means that Lebanon must be neutral from all conflicts and wars because it is not a land of war because of its formation and the plurality that exists in it, and because it is a land of convergence, dialogue and freedom, it is a dialogue of cultures and religions, and to live this message it is deprived of it because it wants to wage wars wherever it wants that is and nobody trusts us.
He explained that “when we say neutrality, we do not neutralize Israel. When the state attacks us, it must respond and not anyone else, and we cannot distance ourselves from the Arab community.”
He noted that “I used to criticize the national unity government, because national unity is at the heart and loyalty to Lebanon and not at the service of our party and our group. The original sin was when the parliamentary blocs began to form the cabinet and the cabinet became a miniature of the House of Representatives, “emphasizing that” the minister are not marions that move from Outside, the country does not walk if all the parties want to appoint their ministers. The government must be independent, and this This is what they agreed with President Emmanuel Macron, but they soon disagreed on the division of ministries. “
He explained: “The constitution says that the president of the republic convenes consultations, and the result is the name of the prime minister. It also says that the designated prime minister forms the government and our problem is that they are entering norms that violate the constitution without modifying it, and that is our disagreement with the political group. ” The sponsor also saw that “the division has been consumed for eternity, and the Lebanese culture is living together and the division will not return because nobody wants it, just as federalism is not on the table”, calling for “the application of administrative decentralization enlarged “.
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