Do not give up the rights of Christians

The government formation crisis continues and expands. While no one expected a “miracle” from French President Emmanuel Macron’s planned visit to Beirut, “it would have been a useful factor.” Informed sources confirmed that the French, on the eve of the canceled visit, contacted Presidents Michel Aoun, Saad Hariri and the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, Gebran Bassil, in an attempt to unravel the contract on the number of ministers. and the distribution of portfolios. The President of the Republic insists on obtaining the interior portfolio “because Hariri wants to appoint a Christian for him and Aoun considers that he is the first to appoint Christian ministers.” Hariri also refuses to give in to the head of the Justice Ministry “after the judicial practices of Aoun’s team in various files”. While other sources confirm that Hariri’s insistence on justice is due to fear of opening accounting files in administrations and institutions managed by his relatives.

Faced with the stalemate in the authorship deliberations, the Maronite Patriarch Bechara Al-Rai visited Baabda yesterday, after receiving the president-designate the day before yesterday, in an attempt to mediate to make a hole in the obstruction wall. The declaration of the Patriarch, after the visit, that “I did not notice the attachment of the president to the third-party obstructor” was notable, underlining the need for an understanding between the president of the Republic and the designated president.
Later, Basilio went to the patriarchal building. The meeting, which lasted about two hours, with the pastor, and which included a lunch, witnessed, according to sources, “an in-depth discussion” in the government’s file and on the “need to preserve the national alliance.” At the meeting, Bassil answered the pastor’s questions and answered “a point” to what the president-designate had brought to Bkerke two days ago.
Regarding the composition process, the head of the Free Patriotic Movement confirmed “with the facts that Hariri appointed the Christian ministers in the formation that led to the Baabda Palace, contrary to the latter’s assertions that the names included in his formation had They have been selected from a list that the President of the Republic previously presented to him. ” And he stressed that Aoun “did not give any name to Hariri. He mentioned qualified names for the minister during the meetings with the designated President, then which was the last one but he chose some of them, considering that the President was the one who proposed them. Bassil indicated that the matter “is not related to the proposed names, and some of them may be good, but with reference to the constitution, in which article 53 stipulates that the prime minister forms a government with the president of the republic, not that the prime minister name the formation and transfer it to the president of the republic to be fingerprinted. He also pointed out that “what is happening now is an attempt to take away the title of head of state from the president of the republic and make him president of the Republic of the current only, by limiting the conversation with him to a part of the Christian quota instead of having his central role, and his opinion in all the names of all the sects, and in the ministerial distribution AND his full participation in the formation of the government, which is not limited to one action. In this a coup of logic of the association and the position of the presidency. In addition, “there is an attempt to hit what we have previously shown that the president of the republic has a stake in the government that has nothing to do with the party he leads.” Here, Basil al-Ra’i asked: “Our Master, we have grown weary after Taif to reestablish the association. Do you want us to renounce the rights of Christians?” Then the pastor immediately replied, “Awa!”

A question that worries Bkerke: Who will govern if we enter a presidential vacuum with a government absent from the current and from the forces?

The same sources confirmed that the sponsor “understood the facts presented by Basil, and was surprised that they were different from what Hariri told him, and asked Basil to tell the public that the movement does not cling to any portfolio or participation and that the third-party obstructor did not ask.
According to the sources, “a question that worries Bkerke: if the movement and the forces are outside the government, which will probably remain until the end of the era, who will rule in case a president cannot be elected once finalized the term of President Michel Aoun? ” Therefore, according to the sources, “there was a broad discussion about the importance of establishing full Christian participation in government, and not renouncing the results that Christians have achieved in the last ten years in terms of complete parity, in order to avoid a return to an incomplete practice that they had previously suffered, which would violate rights and perpetuate norms that they have made efforts. Giant to get out of it ».
And at night, it was quoted from Bkerke sources that “summer and winter under one roof are not acceptable in authorship, which means that it is not allowed to request nominal lists of some blocks and we do not ask that of others” .

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