Jumblatt believes that the French initiative is the “last chance” to save Lebanon

Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt said today (Wednesday) that some do not seem to understand that the French-led efforts to pull Lebanon out of the crisis are the last chance to save the country.
Lebanon is facing a severe economic and financial crisis that represents the greatest threat to its stability since the civil war that raged between 1975 and 1990, and France is pressuring divided politicians to form a new government in order to begin reforming. the country that suffers from widespread corruption, but have already exceeded a deadline that ended yesterday (Tuesday). They agreed with Paris to form a new government, according to the Reuters news agency.
Jumblatt wrote on Twitter: “It seems that some did not understand or did not want to understand that the French initiative is the last chance to save Lebanon and prevent its disappearance, as its chancellor (France) clearly said.”
Last month, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Lebanon is in danger of disappearing without the necessary reforms.
A MP from a major Christian party said Lebanon faces a decisive 24 hours. Either “logic of reason prevails” and a government will be formed, or Prime Minister-designate Mustafa Adeeb apologizes.
“We have a historic opportunity through the initiative launched by President Emmanuel Macron,” Simon Abi Ramia, a parliamentarian from the Free Patriotic Movement, said on Twitter.
Political sources that were kept abreast of the ongoing contacts to facilitate the formation of the new Lebanese government revealed yesterday (Tuesday) that French President Emmanuel Macron has instructed the concerned authorities to form him that he wishes to extend the deadline he had set. .
The sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that President Macron informed stakeholders that the extension of the deadline to one or two days ends tomorrow (Thursday), paving the way for intensifying contacts to create conditions that push to overcome the point dead that still delays the process of formation of the government.
The same sources stressed that Macron did not stop communicating with all Lebanese leaders to overcome the obstacles that still hinder the formation of the government. He noted that the French contacts did not end with the president in charge of forming the government, Ambassador Mustafa Adib, and said that the latter follows the pace of the contacts assumed by Macron and with him the French team assigned to follow the Lebanese file.