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Mohamed Choucair wrote in the Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper:
Informed Lebanese political sources said that Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri is a focal point in ongoing consultations to crystallize the name of the candidate who enjoys coverage from Sunni leaders to form the new government, as he is the most representative of his sect over other candidates for this position. Sources confirmed to Al-Sharq al-Awsat that Berri will be the first to be informed of his name, so that he will be able to build on what is required before the start of the binding parliamentary consultations that President Michel Aoun will hold today to assign the candidate who has the support of the parliamentary majority to form it.
Political sources noted that the ongoing consultations on the eve of the start of today’s binding parliamentary consultations are not isolated from the group of contacts that French President Emmanuel Macron undertakes before returning again tonight to Beirut, in an attempt to secure a political safety net that pushes to prepare the local environment for the birth of the next government in a natural way. Without colliding with obstacles that would hinder its birth.
He indicated that Macron, although he preferred the presence of the leader of the Future Movement, former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, at the head of the government due to internal and external considerations, among which he highlights that he is the most represented in his sect, but his initiative to declare the Hariri’s reluctance to take over as prime minister did not diminish the level of French interest in the need to assume the presidency. Third, and if he insists on his position, another candidate must be chosen who will be appointed in agreement with the previous heads of government, provided that if the election falls on him, the conditions for success in his mission must be met.
The same sources considered that the fundamental role that President Berri plays is due to his ability to communicate with all parties without exception, at a time when President Aoun cannot play a similar role, not because others surround him and confiscate his role, but because he delegated to the head of the “Free Patriotic Movement”, Deputy Gebran. Bassil to play this role on his behalf. Otherwise, what compelled you, when the Speaker met with him, to refer him to Bassil to discuss the file for the change of government based on the need to set a date for the mandatory parliamentary consultations to appoint the designated president? He saw that Aoun was used, during Hariri’s presence at the head of the government, to ask him to return to Bassil to discuss pending and thorny issues, and said that he could not ensure the participation of the opposition in the dialogue meetings he organized in Baabda, in addition to that he encountered a dead end when he decided to make the previous consultations. Consult in an attempt to prioritize authorship over startup.
He said that Berri’s fundamental role is not due to his reluctance and his parliamentary bloc to elect Aoun as president of the Republic or to the fluctuation of his relationship with the “shadow president” Basil, but to his mediating role that allowed to position himself in the middle of the road between loyalty and opposition, especially after Aoun was transformed with full will from A group that has no concern, until further notice, unless Basil floats in light of his retreat on the street. Christian in favor of his opponents, especially after the devastating earthquake that struck Beirut as a result of the explosion that occurred in the port on August 4.
The same sources asked: How can Aoun play the role of political mastermind pushing to hasten the birth of the government after he abandoned the task entrusted to him to play the role of uniting the Lebanese and the sponsor of the dialogue, and What had Basil al-Assad’s participation in the destruction of its internal and external relations and plunging Lebanon into useless confrontations? From his commitment to the ministerial declarations of the governments in which he held ministerial positions, which envisaged the distancing and neutralization of Lebanon from the ongoing conflicts in the region, which led several Arab and Western countries to classify it as belonging to the axis of resistance led by Iran?
Therefore, Aoun’s role may be limited, until further notice, to the signing of the decree appointing the president in charge of forming the government based on binding consultations, and therefore, it is difficult for him to resist the majority consensus. of parliamentarians on the appointment of a specific candidate because this puts him in direct confrontation with Macron, who is warning Lebanon not to roll into civil war in case local parties do not rush to remedy the danger by prioritizing the formation of a rescue government with a specific mission.
Asharq Al-Awsat learned that Berri contacted Hariri the day before yesterday and discussed with him the need to speed up coordination with the heads of government to agree on the appointment of a candidate who enjoys unequivocal political coverage.
Parliamentary sources quoted Berri as telling Hariri, who met that same night with the political aide to the Speaker of Parliament, Ali Hassan Khalil, that it is not allowed to delay the nomination of the candidate until midnight on Sunday or early today, attributing the reason for the need to make contacts prior to the consultations to formulate a position similar to Consensus instead of agglomerating the parliamentary blocs and asking them to determine their position at the last moment before these consultations begin, and at that time I inform you of the appointment of the Lebanese ambassador to Germany, Mustafa Adeeb.
Former heads of government Saad Hariri, Najib Mikati, Fouad Siniora and Tamam Salam agreed at their last meeting to communicate to agree on their candidate for prime minister in light of all their reluctance to run. Furthermore, Hariri, as he told you, is not in the process of appointing a candidate from the “future”, because His mere approval of his candidacy eliminates the reasons behind his reluctance to run, and this is what opened the door to exchange names. of various candidates, noting that the name of the former Lebanese ambassador to the United Nations, Nawaf Salam, was presented at the meeting of heads of government, but was excluded from opposing Hezbollah. “for him. But the heads of government agreed to appoint Ambassador Mustafa Adib.
Source: Middle East
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