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Political sources were surprised by what was reported in the last two days, that the last session of the consultations that took place between President Michel Aoun and the prime minister in charge of forming the new government, Saad Hariri, hit a dead end because the latter he insisted on nominating only Christian ministers, refusing to let Aoun be a partner in the deliberations to select ministers.
These sources indicated to Asharq Al-Awsat that what is being leaked from time to time in this regard does not reflect the reality of the atmosphere that prevailed in most of the meetings that took place between them, before the consultations returned to zero. Political sources indicated that there is no truth in everything said, that Hariri refuses to discuss with Aoun the names of the Muslim ministers of Shiites, Sunnis and Druze, explaining that he had raised the names of the ministers nominated to enter in previous sessions. in the government, all of them from the Islamic sects, and from the specialists. And independent, and do not belong to the parties.
She revealed that Aoun continues to insist that he has the exclusive right to elect Christian ministers, and this contradicts the powers that the Lebanese constitution has assigned to the designated prime minister, who is constitutionally authorized to sign the decree in agreement with the president of the Republic. The same sources confirmed that Hariri had initiated in the first session of the authorship consultations to ask Aoun to be a partner in the private deliberations to select ministers from all Lebanese sects, and said that Hariri explicitly told him that he is not opposed to electing. Ministers of the Sunni community, whenever they apply They have the necessary specifications to form an important government that unreservedly adopts the French initiative in its entirety, since it alone constitutes the salvation scenario to save Lebanon and stop its financial and economic collapse .
He denied all reports that Hariri had agreed with the “Shiite duo”, specifically the Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, and also with the “Progressive Socialist” party led by former MP Walid Jumblatt, on the names of the ministers. who would represent them in government. In addition to the ministerial portfolios that will be assigned to these ministers, he explains that the discussion with them was limited to limiting the discussion to the general framework that will be taken into consideration for the formation of the government, and is specifically related to the fact that the ministers are competent, independent and nonpartisan.
These sources added that “the only agreement between Berri and Hariri was limited to excluding the Ministry of Finance from implementing the rotation in the distribution of bags among the Lebanese sects, as long as it remains from the Shiite participation for once.” He stressed that “Hariri did not agree with the Speaker of Parliament on the names proposed by the latter to take over this ministry.”
And he stressed, “Hariri maintains his position, and a Christian team will not be able to appoint Christian ministers, because their mere agreement must apply to Berri and other political forces in terms of appointing whoever represents them in government, and that means delivering it to the criteria previous ones that controlled the formation of governments, and she confirmed that they do not know. ” The reasons behind Aoun’s withdrawal from his approval that the government consists of 18 ministers.
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