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Beirut – “Al-Quds Al-Arabi”:
Had it not been for the postponement of parliamentary consultations in the last quarter of an hour by Lebanese President Michel Aoun, today Prime Minister Saad Hariri would have been tasked with forming a government with reasonable votes. Most political forces have linked the deployment of these consultations with Baabda’s desire not to enrage the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, MP Gebran Bassil, so it is assumed that Hariri’s path to the government palace passes through Gebran Bassil in renewal of Aoun’s famous saying: “in the eyes of the general’s son-in-law, no government is formed.
Activists on social media expressed their anger at the president’s move and its negative repercussions on the crisis situation in the country, wondering about the identity of the parliamentary blocs that Aoun relied on his request to postpone, at a time when Most of the blocs were about to participate in the consultations and designate Hariri with the exception of “Strong Lebanon” and The “Strong Republic”.
In light of this massive campaign, the Baabda Palace was eager to clarify the reasons for the delay, including the issue of the Christian Charter in terms of the “Strong Lebanon” and “Strong Republic” blocs that do not adopt the Hariri name.
Sources familiar with the position of the President of the Republic were cited: “There are 3 things that must be clarified: The first is that the postponement decision was not to justify it, but to set a date. The second is that he does not control the position of president for any personal reason, but there are issues that must be studied before the commission so that we are not facing an unauthorized commission and compose without trust. Regarding the third thing, it is that any head of the block, whether it is a large, balanced or small block, has the right to express its opinion, but this opinion is beyond the competence of the president and his responsibilities, noting that the The president received a series of calls from various block chiefs who wanted him to postpone the consultations.
Baabda justifies the postponement of consultations, so that we are not before a commission without authorship or authorship without trust
The sources were surprised, “some reactions were emitted before the real reasons of the postponement were known”. It was more appropriate than those who objected to analyzing the political situation to find out the reasons for the postponement because the analysis of this situation yields data that led the president to postpone the provision of a positive environment for the composition so that the country is not captured between a government that does businesses and a president who is in charge of not composing ”, noting that“ President Aoun has a great interest in providing the greatest number of parliamentary support to the president, who will assign him training, given the importance and precision of the tasks that are required of the government in the next phase, which requires a broad national consensus and not fragmentation, pointing out that it is better. To be called president appointed by regional consensus.
He added: “The president wanted, through his decision, to give an additional opportunity to agree with the designated president to save the French initiative based on the support of the President of the Republic for this initiative, the implementation of which needs the largest possible number of supporters. Especially after stumbling into positions on this initiative and lingering to address this issue. ” .
In this context, it was reported that Aoun, given the postponement of the consultations, contacted Hariri and put him on the air, on the pretext that the two largest Christian blocs had refrained from naming him. Hariri replied: “You walked in Hassan Diab’s government without the Sunnis.”
And after it was reported that the postponement of the consultations is aimed at pressuring Hariri to take an ever greater stance and apologize for not writing, similar to Ambassador Mustafa Adeeb, Al Wasat House circles denied the intention to Hariri to apologize and confirmed his “ continuation of the French initiative because it is the only chance to save ”. Hariri’s media adviser Hussein Al-Wajh tweeted. Twitter, saying: “The French initiative was and remains the only and last chance to stop the collapse and rebuild Beirut. The postponement will not change the matter and the suspension has never been a solution for Lebanon and the Lebanese.
As for the head of the Free Patriotic Movement, Gebran Bassil, after postponing the consultations, he tweeted: “To all those who philosophize, speculate and wake up: with our respect for the decision of the President of the Republic to postpone the parliamentary consultations, this will not change our position ”.
Sources close to the movement reported that there was an attempt to establish a quadripartite alliance of Hariri, the Shiite duo and Walid Jumblatt against the pact and impose an attending prime minister, but some described this environment as “an old game designed to solicit popular sympathy. , similar to what happened in the 2005 elections. “
On the other hand, the head of the “Lebanese Forces” party, Samir Geagea, renewed his criticism of the ruling authority, saying: “Day after day, it is confirmed with clear and tangible evidence that with this parliamentary majority, and this ruling group, Valj will not be treated. ” The only solution is early parliamentary elections.
