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The Lebanese street simmers between a suffocating economic crisis and a political one, on the impact of yesterday’s political tensions between President Aoun and his invitation to Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri to the Baabda Palace to discuss the formation of the expected government. Will you see the light?
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President Aoun asked Hariri to facilitate the formation of the government or to apologize (Archive)
Today, Thursday, Lebanese President Michel Aoun is scheduled to meet at the Baabda Palace with the designated prime minister, Saad Hariri, to discuss the formation of the long-awaited government.
On Wednesday, President Aoun called Hariri in a televised speech to the Baabda Palace for immediate government formation, per constitutional mechanism, or an apology.
Aoun said: “If Hariri is unable to compose, he must give way to all who are able to compose.”
He continued: “Hariri presented, under the titles, a government draft that does not meet the minimum level of national balance, which led the country to a tunnel of rupture.
On the other hand, Hariri asked President Aoun to allow early presidential elections if he could not sign decrees to form a government of non-partisan specialists.
Al-Hariri said on his Twitter account that President Aoun should be honest with the Lebanese about the real reason.
His Excellency will have to tell the Lebanese the real reason that prompts him to try to hinder the will of the Parliament that elected the appointed president, and that for many months has prevented him from giving rise to salvation in front of the citizens (7/8)
– Saad Hariri (@saadhariri) March 17, 2021
This confrontation comes at a time when several Lebanese regions are witnessing a wave of protests to reject the deterioration of living conditions and the deterioration of the exchange rate of the national currency against the US dollar, which touched 15 thousand pounds per dollar.
Demonstrations and scenes of roadblocks returned to Lebanon two weeks ago due to the suffocating economic crisis, high food prices, declining purchasing power and reduced government support for a number of staples.
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