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Today Monday, Prime Minister-designate Mustafa Adib put Lebanese President Michel Aoun in the environment of his consultations to form a government without much progress, while the deadline set by French President Emmanuel Macron for the political class to complete the composition is about to to finish.
The Free Patriotic Movement headed by Gebran Bassil, son-in-law of the President of the Republic, and the Amal Movement headed by the President of Parliament, Nabih Berri, criticized the path of government formation.
At the end of his visit to Beirut earlier this month, and the day after Adib was assigned to form the government, Macron announced the commitment of the political forces to form a “government with a specific mission” that would undertake basic reforms. and would restore the confidence of the people in two weeks.
Adeeb, whom the main political blocs agreed to name, began the government formation consultations on September 2, without having yet revealed their content or the extent of their progress.
A source in the Lebanese presidency told the agency France-Presse that Adeeb “probably did not offer any alignment” to Aoun, and the two sides “will resume the meeting when the consultation session is completed.”
Reluctance to participate
Earlier, the Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri, announced on Sunday that the Amal Movement did not want to participate in the government according to the “principles” followed by Adeeb, and stressed that “the problem is not with the French”, but rather “internal”.
The daily Al-Nahar, on Friday, reported that Berri stipulated that the money bag remains “in the hands of a Shiite personality”, as it has been since 2014, in rejection of the principle of rotation of bags adopted by Adeeb, which means that no match should stick to a specific bag.
Since the horrific Beirut port explosion, France has been pressuring political forces to form a government that undertakes urgent reforms in exchange for international support to lift the country out of its economic crisis. Macron has been in personal contact with Basil and Brie in recent days.
Bassil, whose deputies together with Berri and Hezbollah form a balanced parliamentary majority, warned this Sunday of the failure of the French initiative, with “the presence of internal and external parties that want to frustrate it.”
At a press conference, he criticized Adeeb, who has the support of the head of the Future Movement, Saad Hariri, asking: “Does one group define the country and not others, and does it not have the parliamentary majority, the specifications and the names alone? “
In the event that Adeeb insists on moving forward with a government that does not satisfy the strong Shiite component, the training task will be difficult, since agreement between the basic components has always been a condition for forming governments in Lebanon. In this case, the government may not get the approval of Aoun, who came to power with the support of Hezbollah.
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