Al-Akhbar: Prime Minister Designated Keeps Eluding: Hariri Introduces De Facto Government Hariri appoints all Christian ministers

Hariri wanted to suggest With decomposition
– The formation he presented is nothing more than a “de facto government”.
– “The discrepancies remain the same.”
Composition takes time and what Hariri presented is not serious
– The president-designate has “redeemed” the affairs of others
Hariri is the one who is most “afraid” of opening corrupt files

News: Yesterday Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri wanted to suggest that there is some solution on the government’s file.In an optimistic atmosphere, after the meeting with the President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun. fact that The formation he presented is nothing more than a “de facto government”.، In it, he only named all the Christian, Shiite and Druze ministers, indicating that he continues to elude.

The counterattacks of the economic-financial collapse and the formation of the government are rushing to exhaust the country that is just around the corner from the explosion, while its people are suffocated by two threads: one is a local that threatens to lose the social safety net by withdrawing support for basic products, and another regional and international connected to a confrontation throughout the region. On the list of those besieged internationally to subjugate it.

Faced with this reality, the political forces are still trying to invest in time and trying to suggest that they are striving to form a government, to remove responsibility behind their backs before the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to Lebanon. This is what prompted Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri to resume his activities earlier in the week, after an interruption of more than 15 days, for which he visited Baabda on Monday.Then he repeated yesterday’s visit, carrying a new government formation of 18 ministers with the names and distributing the portfolios to the sects and forces.

Verbally, Hariri, leaving the meeting with the President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, wanted to suggest that there is some solution, saying that Aoun “promised me that he would study the training and that we would return and meet.” The atmosphere is positive and there are high hopes that the government will be formed to rebuild Beirut ”, while the information crossed when “The discrepancies remain the same.” As sources familiar with the atmosphere of the meeting indicated that Hariri appointed all Christian ministers in his formation, and appointed Hezbollah ministers without the party giving him the names it proposes to select, as it had previously agreed with him, and also appointed a diplomat affiliated with former MP Walid Jumblatt to to take charge of foreign relations, although the latter clearly declared his rejection of this ministry.me.

Even when the president of the republic told him there was no objection to giving Jumblatt health or education, he remained firm in his opinion. Consequently, the sources ask: “How can someone who wants to form a government add to the dispute with the Christians two more disputes with the Shiites and the Druze?”.

Other sources said that «Hariri returned the Interior portfolio that Aoun demands to be part of the« Future », Given by Nicola Habr.

He assigned five Christian ministers to be appointed by Aoun, and three Christian ministers for the Marada Movement, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party and the Tashnak Party. This was rejected by Aoun, “who proposed a counter-formation, during which the portfolios and ministries were distributed among the sects without including any names.” While Hariri instructed his “group” to filter an optimistic atmosphere, and Jumblatt tweeted that he was “waiting for the white smoke”, Baabda sources confirmed that “the atmosphere of the meeting was normal”, which was reflected in a statement from the Palace Republican stating that “President Aoun agreed with Hariri to study the proposals.” Introductory and follow-up consultation to address the differences between these proposals.

In this context, prominent political circles pointed out that “the climate surrounding the composition process is still very slow, and it is like throwing the ball between two parties, each aware of the weaknesses of the other, and the duel between them is even more intense”.

Furthermore, the hard data shows that writing takes time and that what Hariri presented is not serious. The most obvious is that Hizbullah did not give any name to Hariri, unlike the Speaker of the Parliament Nabih Berri, while Al-Akhbar learned that “the day before yesterday there were contacts between Hariri and the Socialist Party, in which there was an exchange of some names and a preliminary agreement on “That Walid Jumblatt has a minister in the government, with two portfolios: Foreign Relations and Agriculture.”

Hariri reinstalled the Interior Ministry as part of his part and appointed Nicolas Haber to take over.

It should be noted that in the Republican Palace, the atmosphere was marked after Hariri’s visit last Monday, with some optimism, after it seemed that the designated president had returned to the “natural way of forming governments”, when consulting the names with the President of the Republic as a full member in the composition, not as a recipient of what the designated president wanted.

Thus, yesterday the date was set on the basis that Hariri will receive from the President of the Republic an integrated proposal that includes a distribution of portfolios between sects and sects, in accordance with the rules of jurisdiction, and is “based on a proposal that Hariri himself had previously submitted. ” Therefore, it was agreed to meet yesterday to study Aoun’s proposal, and agree on the distribution and then the names. “You cannot name a fetus if you do not know if it is male or female.”

But Yesterday, the President-designate returned to “resolve” matters togetherThis indicates that it “continues to bypass”. He brought an assortment to Baabda, appointed all his ministers, and distributed his bags as he wished. The description of the “de facto government” cannot be applied to anything insofar as it applies to what Hariri presented to Aoun yesterday.

Hariri is concerned about the opening of corruption files affecting the municipality of Beirut, “Middle East” and “Development and Reconstruction”

From outside the Baabda Palace, the atmosphere was more tense between Aoun and the rest of the forces, due to the opening of corruption files, “whose objective is to settle accounts with specific political forces,” according to their circles.

In this context, Al-Akhbar learned that meetings are taking place in Beit al-Wasat, Ain al-Tina and Clemenceau to respond to this matter, but Hariri is the most “fearful” of them so he He was transferred in regards to preparing to open files affecting the Beirut Municipality, the Council for Development and Reconstruction, the Middle East Company, and many more. Of the institutions managed by affiliates. Even some of those around him fear that this step will weaken Hariri and push him to engage in the issue of government formation and to grant what Aoun wants.