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Lebanese President Michel Aoun said today, Wednesday, in a speech to the Lebanese people: I saw that it is my duty today, based on my oath and from my constitutional responsibility and the symbolism of my office, to address the Lebanese people as well as the representatives of the nation from the point of view of due openness, especially on the outskirts of major tasks where agreements are mapped, signed and implemented Expansive or divisive policies can change the face of the region
Aoun added: Our region has witnessed many profound political changes due to regional and international factors, and these changes have not yet shown their full results on many levels, and things may change.
The Lebanese President asked: There is a fateful and unavoidable question: Where are we, where is Lebanon’s location, and what are the policies we need to adopt regarding the main changes and fundamental understandings so that Lebanon is not receptive and inactive in what are we witnessing to become fragments of the table of major interests and understandings?
Aoun continued: I live with the pain of the people and I understand their resentment, but the truth must remind me that some of those who ruled Lebanon for decades and even in person or with their approach raised resounding slogans that remained without any content that were like promises. anesthetics, which the Lebanese people did not see any qualitative achievements to bestow on their present. And your future assured.
Aoun asserted: The reform remained just a motto repeated by officials and politicians, and they harbor the opposite of what they ask for and do not do significant reform work, but rather ensure their authoritarian and personal interests with perfection and dedication, until we arrive to the point that corruption became an organized institutional corruption, par excellence, rooted in our authorities, institutions and administrations.
The Lebanese President said: When I was still deported to France, the slogan of reform was chanted in Lebanon and I did not see any trace of it when I returned.
Aoun added: I carried out the change and reform project in an attempt to save the country from the clutches of factional, personal, and authoritarian interests that brought us all to where we are today.
The Lebanese president affirmed: When I carried out the project of change and reform in an attempt to save the Homeland, those affected raised the barricades in my face
Aoun emphasized: The pages of the written media and positions in all the media still bear witness to the systematic determination of these people not to allow me to undertake any reform project just because it stems from my conviction and focus.
The Lebanese President asked: Where is the economy after its profits consumed the savings of the Lebanese and reaped their lives while we still called for a productive economy? Where is the economic plan and who did not implement it? Where is the Public Investment Program (CIP) and who kept it on paper? Where are the sectoral development plans prepared by CEDRE and who did not implement them?
Aoun continued: Where is the electricity plan that has been sleeping in the drawers since 2010, and has no approval or implementation framework been established for it, despite our insistence on it so that the Lebanese are not prisoners of the dark? and the cost of the multiple sources of energy obtained? Where is the dam’s plan to harvest Lebanon’s natural wealth, the water that originates from the core of our land and is wasted from our rivers to our sea?
The Lebanese President stated: In the first days of my mandate, exploration and exploration decrees woke up in our sea after a deep sleep, and gas is a natural wealth of its size and has saving effects on our deteriorating economic conditions, while skepticism continues to prevail among those who promote pessimism among some who run public affairs.
Aoun also asked: Where are the proposals to reform the laws regarding the recovery of stolen funds and the automatic investigation of the financial assets of those in a public service and the special court for financial crimes? Where do we come from the waste of public money and the loss of accounts in the Ministry of Finance and the projects to cut accounts? Where do we come from the Relief Commission, the Council for Development and Reconstruction, the Fund for Displaced Persons, the Fund South and the unproductive public institutions that we agreed to abolish to end the severe financial hemorrhage on them and its consequences? Where did we come from the initiative to rescue what happened to us, be it economic, social, monetary, financial, or in terms of rebuilding Beirut due to the tragic port explosion?
The Lebanese President said: I have said my word and I will not walk, but I will continue to fulfill the pact and the promise, and I hope you will think carefully about the effects of the mandate on authorship and reform projects.
Michel Aoun said: “I will continue to assume my responsibilities in the commission and authorship, and in each constitutional position and office, and in front of all those who prevent our people from reforming and building the state … !!”
