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Muhammad Choucair wrote in the Middle East:
A Lebanese political source said that the main political headlines for the current period that resulted from the apology of the president-designate, Ambassador Mustafa Adib, for not forming the new government, can only be extrapolated from the positions announced yesterday by French President Emmanuel Macron in his press conference, which he dedicated to addressing the causes and circumstances that led to overthrowing the initiative he proposed to save Lebanon and lift it out of the abyss in which it now finds itself, although all parties interested in providing the conditions to facilitate the birth of the The government quickly, immediately after a polite apology, confirmed their adherence to this initiative as if this or that party had nothing to do with besieging the French road map that everyone adopted at least. In public.
Adeeb’s apology for not forming a government made up of independents and specialists came after he hit a dead end, although Macron was put on political alert, and was forced to intervene in everything to remove the obstacles that prevented the formation of the government, in addition to which he took on the task of almost daily communication. Perhaps it can find a way out of the crisis, which centered on the insistence of the “Shiite duo” to take over the Ministry of Finance and give it back the exclusive right to appoint Shiite ministers and choose their ministerial portfolios.
But Macron, who will not take a step back that could push him to withdraw his initiative from circulation, despite being highly disturbed by Adeeb’s apology, in return failed to persuade the ‘Shiite duo’ to adopt the way in which he proposed to resolve the issue. central node caused by the dispute by the Ministry of Finance. Based on your assignment to a Shiite minister to be appointed by the president-designate.
Windy meeting
The political source revealed to “Asharq Al-Awsat” that the last meeting held by Representative Ali Hassan Khalil, political assistant to the Speaker of Parliament, President Nabih Berri, and Hussein Khalil, political assistant to the Secretary General of “Hezbollah” Hassan Nasrallah , with Adeeb the night before His apology was stormy from representatives of the “Shiite duo”, and unusual political expressions were used that included something like a warning.
He said Adeeb did not deviate from his calm, assuring them that he was not in the process of confrontation with the Shiite sect or other sects, and that his assignment to form a major government came after the main parties agreed with Macron on the roadmap. that he proposed to save Lebanon, which is supposed to be the general framework for the draft declaration. Ministerial of the next government.
He pointed out that Macron, although he did not mention the application of the rotation in the distribution of ministerial portfolios to the Lebanese sects, nor the exclusivity of certain ministries for being part of this or that team, focused on an “important government” and that it should be strengthened with national unity, and confirmed that Macron asked The representative of “Hezbollah”, the head of the bloc “Al-Wafa for the Resistance”, Deputy Muhammad Raad, expressed his opinion on the content of the initiative, and his response was that he was agree with 90 percent of it.
When asked about the ten percent that he disagrees with, Raad replied that he does not agree with the development of a new electoral law or holding early parliamentary elections, although his achievement is inconsistent with political realism if Parliament refuses to dissolve.
The source believed that Macron did not object to the statements that Raad stopped earlier, justifying his disagreement with ten percent of his initiative, and said that the President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, was the first to support the rotation in the distribution of suitcases without some taking his opinion, and this is what he repeated in his meetings. With Adib.
He considered that the mere insistence of some on politicizing the ministerial composition would inevitably lead to emptying the political initiative of its content, because the mere agreement to exclude a certain sect from the rotation will push other sects to demand that they be treated in the same way.
Therefore, it may be premature to ask about the options that Aoun will pursue to overcome the government crisis that reached its climax with a courteous apology, especially since he is interested in ending the last third of his presidential term by opening the door to remove the country from their calamities, otherwise the fate of this third party will be no better. Immediately of the fate of the two-thirds that have expired of their mandate.
In this context, no constitutional impediment stands as a barrier to Aoun’s delay in convening binding parliamentary consultations to appoint the alternate president to form the government, so he will be forced to evaluate the previous stage in the context of his conduct of a comprehensive survey of political positions, provided it is accompanied by what Macron will decide in light of the insistence of the political team. The Adeeb supporter has dealt with his apology from the point of view that the solution lies in Tehran and not in Beirut, despite the Iranian leadership having informed all who reviewed it that it must return to negotiations with Hezbollah, and this is what leads the team to say that Tehran has the Lebanese card.
The same team has also been certain that Tehran insists on including the Lebanese letter in its negotiations with Washington as soon as the US presidential elections take place, although it believes that the new administration, whatever it is, will not change its position on Iran. and its ally, Hezbollah.
But the truth of Aoun’s position is that there is no possibility of agreeing to form a confrontational government similar to the resigned government headed by Hassan Diab, which was overthrown by the “people of the house” who were behind its creation. This is for two reasons: the first is to link your commitment to the French initiative with deeds, not words, especially since it is based on providing the conditions to form a settlement government with a mission of salvation.
As for the second reason, it is related to Aoun’s bet that the government was out of place, not because of Diab’s disharmony with most of his allies. Rather, it is due to their inability to develop a rescue plan to request the assistance of the International Monetary Fund, which coincided with the tightening of the international embargo on government and government, and the temporary solution may be to extend the period of conducting business for the government resigned without floating, except in the event that the parties agree to review their accounts so that it can comply with the conditions of the French initiative.
Source: Middle East
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