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The Media Office of Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri issued the following statement:
The Al-Akhbar newspaper published the news today that the President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, told Major General Abbas Ibrahim that he would be satisfied with appointing five ministers in addition to the minister of Tashnag in a government of 18 ministers, and insisted to change obtained by the internal portfolio, provided that Deputy Gebran Bassil refrained from granting confidence to the government. And the surprise was that Prime Minister Hariri rejected Aoun’s proposal. Al-Sahiqa explained that Prime Minister Hariri does not want to form a government before obtaining approval from Saudi Arabia.
Prime Minister Hariri’s media office will clarify the following:
First: Prime Minister Hariri did not receive any official word from President Aoun on this matter, suggesting that those behind the leak of such information are only aiming to transfer responsibility for the obstruction from President Aoun and MP Bassil to the Prime Minister. Minister Hariri.
Second: Prime Minister Hariri, and unlike Hezbollah, which is always waiting for its decision from Iran, is not waiting for the approval of any foreign party to form the government, not Saudi Arabia or anyone else, but is waiting for the approval of the president. Aoun to form the government. a government of specialists, with the amendments that Prime Minister Hariri has publicly proposed, his speech was broadcast live on the air on February 14, and not through press leaks, as it appears today.
Third: The conformity of this interpretation propagated by the newspaper by an alleged rejection of Prime Minister Hariri with the words of the Deputy Secretary General of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, in his television interview yesterday, and his appearance in the Al-Akhbar newspaper specifically. Today, it reinforces the feeling that the party is among the parties participating in the attempt to throw the ball of responsibility on Prime Minister Hariri, in fact, it is maneuvering to prolong the government vacuum, waiting for Iran to start negotiations with the new US administration, clinging to the stability of Lebanon as one of the cards of this negotiation.
Fourth: Emphasizing that neither party, neither General Ibrahim nor anyone else, has not informed Prime Minister Hariri that the President of the Republic has officially entrusted him with transmitting an offer, the question remains: whether the The Free Patriotic Movement will retain the government’s trust and oppose it, so what is the justification for the president? The republic has a third of the members of the government (five plus one of 18), according to those behind the leak of the news , at a time when the President Aoun himself was the one who, during the time of former President Michel Suleiman, refused to allow the President of the Republic to have any minister in the government, if he was not. Do you have a representative bloc that helps give you confidence and support?
Fifth: if the decision of the Free Patriotic Movement was really to deny trust and oppose the government, then why did the leader of the movement suspend the formation of the government for five months before announcing his position, contrary to what the President of the Republic? compromised in order to justify the six portfolios of 18 in his search for the third blocker?
Finally, Prime Minister Hariri affirms, in light of this, the commitment to government specifications that started from the first moment of the commission, either in numerical terms or in terms of non-partisan specialization criteria, and considers that The commitment of The French initiative is complemented by popular demands for a government capable of dealing with the economic, financial and life repercussions, and curbing the collapse of the lira and opening the way for serious reforms that stop the current hemorrhage.
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