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Under the title: “Hariri begins his consultations today with a meeting with former prime ministers,” Muhammad Shuqair wrote in the newspaper “Asharq Al-Awsat”: A leading source from the “Future Movement” said that it is too early to address the announcement of his prime minister, former prime minister Saad Hariri, that he is the natural candidate to assume the presidency The government by counting the votes he will receive in the binding parliamentary consultations that President Michel Aoun will hold next Thursday to appoint the designated president, He assured Al-Sharq al-Awsat that the final decision on Hariri’s candidacy depends on the will of the parliamentary blocs that he will consult before the start of the consultations to provide political guarantees. Without it, the French initiative to save Lebanon by halting the financial and economic collapse and blocking the country’s slide toward disappearance cannot be trusted.
Al-Sharq al-Awsat learned that Hariri will begin his consultations this weekend with the “Ahl al-Bayt”, where he will meet today with former Prime Ministers Najib Mikati, Fouad Siniora and Tamam Salam to consult with them at the stage after his candidacy, although his position surprised them and did not inform them when he met with them that night. His televised appearance, even if he negotiated with them in the main headlines he would focus on.
Hariri, who began by announcing his candidacy, recovers what he lost in his street, and will also consult with the representatives of the ‘Future’ bloc to initiate consultations, starting at the beginning of the week, with the parliamentary blocs, although the President of Parliament Nabih Berri , according to his circles, he took the initiative to welcome the decision of a leader “. Al-Mustaqbal”, although he recorded some observations about him in his evocation in his interview with “Sparrow Milk” or in linking the beginning of the demarcation process with the imposition of sanctions, although it confirms that Hariri was aware of the intention to start negotiations last July.
Not to mention, Berri did not know when he went with President Michel Aoun and the interim government, Hassan Diab, to Kuwait to offer his condolences on the death of his Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, that Aoun would convene parliamentary consultations. , and that the latter informed him of his call to parliamentary circles for this purpose. Republican table on its reception of the parliamentary blocks.
It appears that the president of the Progressive Socialist Party, Walid Jumblatt, will overcome the debate between him and Hariri and will continue to support his name in the consultations, while the relationship between the latter and the head of the Lebanese Forces Party, Samir Geagea, will generate more tension as long as the continuous attempts to get away from the spotlight do not cool the atmosphere between them. As for “Hezbollah”, it is studying its position on the basis of not disagreeing with its ally Berri.
The main source in Al-Mustaqbal pointed out that the economic guarantees demanded by Hariri are limited to the adoption by the parliamentary blocs of the economic program presented by French President Emmanuel Macron and that he had approved in his meeting with her at the Pine Palace, and said that political guarantees are known and are based on forming an important government. Of independents and specialists, for a transition period of six months that undertakes the implementation of the economic reform program.
