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Former Prime Ministers Naguib Mikati, Fouad Siniora, Saad Hariri and Tamam Salam issued the following statement:
It is regrettable that Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah avoided to this point the truth in the account he gave about the efforts made by President Mustafa Adib to try to form a rescue government and the reasons that led to its failure.
First: the French initiative, which was the only opportunity to try to stop the collapse of Lebanon, was based on the need to suspend everything related to traditional internal politics, and the issue of partisan and partisan competition, for a few months, to that the main parliamentary blocs agree to a miniature rescue government of competent specialists that the parties do not mention. Implement a purely financial, monetary and administrative economic reform program, detailed in its steps for the first three months, to open the way for the beginning of the restoration of confidence and the return of external financing to the country.
Second: What Sayyid Nasrallah called the “Club of the Four Heads of Government” did not form the government in the name of President Adeeb, and he did not impose a name or portfolio on it. Rather, their role was limited to providing the cover in a transparent and clear manner to implement what the parliamentary blocs agreed to in the Al-Pinawbar Palace, after meeting a common word regarding the appointment of the designated head. This role did not start for a moment from imposing the tutelage of the prime minister, but from the calls made by the majority of the Lebanese, who unanimously agreed not to repeat the mechanisms that were adopted in the formation of the resigned government, subject of a wide popular opposition that crossed the French initiative and the need to establish an independent government away from the quota system. And political and partisan loyalty.
Third: The designated President was not able to consult with His Excellency the President of the Republic, nor with any of the political blocs regarding names and portfolios before the knot that Amal and Hezbollah raised in his face, as soon as his efforts reached their stage final on the eve of the sanctions announced against the former ministers. And that created complications and difficulties. And what happened in the wake of Prime Minister Hariri, and in view of the danger that threatened the opportunity to halt the collapse available, he resorted to taking a unilateral initiative that would allow, if adopted, to maintain Shiite representation in the Ministry of Finance for once. , with emphasis on the principle of rotation in ministerial portfolios. It is unfortunate that instead of retaking the initiative of Prime Minister Hariri, which France praised, the president-designate was bypassed and put more conditions on and adhered to appointing ministers in the remaining portfolios, in an open blow from the rules from which the French initiative and the constitution were launched, which states that no ministerial portfolio is limited to representatives of either. A specific sect.
Fourth: What is remarkable in the Hezbollah Secretary General’s narrative is that he deliberately provoked a sectarian confrontation between the president of the republic and the designated prime minister, claiming to infringe the constitutional powers of the president of the republic in the interest of the prime minister and the represents. Which is unfounded. Note that what the designated president demanded is the same as demanded by the Presidency of the Republic and the majority of blocs and political and parliamentary figures who participated in the Republican Palace consultations, regarding accreditation for portfolio rotation, with the exception of representatives of the bilateral Amal and Hezbollah.
Fifth: The reading of the Secretary General of Hezbollah undermines the French initiative, with its economic and financial content, through the proposals of the International Monetary Fund and the economic and financial reforms.
Sixth: Sayyed Nasrallah failed to return to the events of May 2008 to recall the attack on Beirut, which was read by the Lebanese as an unacceptable threat and brandishing the use of chaos, violence and security chaos, which does not exclude none of its dangers.
Seventh: Sayyed Nasrallah, in most of his speech yesterday, was reviewing the conditions that he established for the formation of the future government. In short, the Hezbollah secretary general wants a government in which his party is represented and in which the parties nominate their representatives for the various ministries. This recipe is fully applicable to what happened when the resigned government was formed, which led to clear and evident results, which the Lebanese saw and see every day with their own eyes, and which essentially demanded a gentle initiative from President Macron in a final attempt to stop the collapse.
In conclusion, the former heads of government affirm their enthusiasm for national unity among the Lebanese and their adherence to the grateful French initiative and the great role of President Macron in insisting on following it to contribute to saving Lebanon.
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