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Judge Fadi Sawan’s indictment against Hassan Diab and former ministers Ali Hassan Khalil, Youssef Fenianos and Ghazi Zaiter further complicates the authorship negotiations, preventing the government from being born soon.
And the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar wrote that the President of the Republic is awaiting the response of the Prime Minister-designate, and the Prime Minister-designate is waiting for the response of the President.
Each side was relieved of responsibility for any further delay in the formation of the government and blamed the other side.
Saad Hariri, when he presented his training, was aware that the President of the Republic would not agree with it, and Michel Aoun knew that Hariri would not adhere to the “unified standards” that he had previously emphasized, as a title to form a government.
This leads to the conclusion that the real message from the Baabda scene was addressed only to the French side, on the eve of the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron: Oh God, we tried.
Nothing new happened yesterday except for the president of the Progressive Socialist Party, Walid Jumblatt, who confirmed that the white smoke over the formation of the government will not be issued soon. However, exclusively in form, Aoun expects Hariri to study the submitted proposals, provided he continues consultations to address the differences between the proposals.
Hariri is waiting for Aoun, who “promised to study the formation” that was presented to him, whenever the meeting takes place again.
Between the two waiting, at least the two parties agreed that another meeting should bring them together. But this does not eliminate that the gap between them is great. As for Hariri, he presented a group that takes into account the French initiative regarding its inclusion of specialized ministers and not affiliated with the parties, and for Aoun, the formation lacks that it takes into account the representation of the parties and the approval of the different blocks, in addition to taking into account the sectarian distribution of portfolios.
However, Hariri sources, who saw Aounista’s position as a return to zero point, or before the French initiative, confirm that there is no room to re-represent the parties and there is no room for any party to get the third. lock.
As for sources close to Baabda, the formation is vitiated by the fact that Hariri did not take the opinion of the blocs concerned about the formation, especially Tashnak, Walid Jumblatt and Hezbollah, so the President of the Republic, based on his constitutional powers, called the president in charge to address the defect in the formation presented.
What Baabda sees are powers, Beit Al Wasat insists on considering it a “constitutional violation”. However, in addition to describing Aoun’s proposal, informed sources consider that the question now is: Is there an effort to improve the conditions of each party, which ultimately leads to the issuance of the formation decrees, or did the scene end there ?
The problem depends on the willingness of each party to backtrack from its position. Hariri can’t fulfill what Aoun wants, but he definitely won’t mind understanding with him some name or portfolio changes, perhaps, but with the preservation of the spirit of the formation.
Will this happen? The next few days will clarify the destination of the formation that was deposited in the Presidency of the Republic. Either the President of the Republic agrees to sign the decrees of his formation, having reached an understanding with Hariri on some non-essential amendments, or he rejects them, and the matter goes beyond the zero point.
Bassil’s opponents accuse him of involving the port file in the struggle to form a government
Things are too complicated to end up in “white smoke”. In the process of formation, each party seeks to use as many weapons as it can. Therefore, the opponents of Deputy Gebran Bassil did not hesitate to place the allegation of the judicial investigator in the crime of the port explosion, Judge Fadi Sawan, against President Hassan Diab and former ministers Ali Hassan Khalil, Youssef Fenianos and Ghazi Zaiter, in the government battering category, which will only lead to further complications.
Basil’s opponents believe that this accusation, which was limited to a minister from the Amal Movement and another from the Marada movement, and to a head of government who was not protected by sectarian or political forces, and did not include former prime ministers and ministers of other parties, it is nothing more than an attempt by the head of the Free Patriotic Movement to expand the range of prosecutions he uses against Opponents.
The Amal Movement, the Marada Movement and the Progressive Socialist Party believe that the Free Patriotic Movement, after the popular losses it has suffered over the last year, is leading a counterattack, through the Judiciary, in an effort to prevent its opponents make him the first loser of the popular uprising as well as its collapse.
Sawan’s claim is inseparable from this context, according to Basil’s opponents. According to sources concerned about government affairs, both Amal, Marada and Socialist will find in Sawan’s indictment, and in the rest of the open judicial files (the displaced, the former army leadership …), an additional reason to support the Hariri’s position when facing Aoun and Basil.
A reading mocked by current sources, considering that the key to solving the complex of forming a government is in the pocket of Saad Hariri, and the latter can free the government at any time.
In any case, the conclusion remains that the consultations to form a government, which were already complicated, have become more complex.
