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On Wednesday, Lebanese President Michel Aoun retained the head of the Future Movement, Saad Hariri, who will probably tomorrow be tasked with forming a new government, without naming him, responsible for fighting corruption and launching the reform workshop, accusing to the political forces to provoke the crisis into which the country has fallen.
On Thursday, Aoun is holding parliamentary consultations to name a new prime minister, likely Hariri, after a majority of MPs announced their support for his nomination. Noting that Hariri headed the government that was forced to resign more than a year ago under pressure from the street, who rose up against the entire political class, demanding his departure under the slogan “everyone means everyone.”
In a speech, broadcast by some television stations from the presidential palace, Aoun addressed the deputies saying: “I hope you will think carefully about the effects of the cession on authorship and on reform projects and international rescue initiatives, because the current deteriorating situation cannot continue after today, accumulating and increasing burdens on the shoulders of citizens. ” .
He added: “Today I am required to commission and then participate in writing, in accordance with the provisions of the constitution. Will the person responsible for commissioning and authorship be obliged to address the sites of corruption and launch the reform workshop?”
The Free Patriotic Movement of Aoun opposes appointing Hariri as prime minister. But most of the representatives of Hariri’s Sunni sect, and other deputies, announced that they would appoint him.
Hezbollah has not announced its position on the appointment of Hariri, but political analysts say it is satisfied with his name, as evidenced by the statement of its most prominent ally, the Amal Movement led by Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, support for Hariri to head the government.
On October 17, 2019, unprecedented popular demonstrations took place in Lebanon that lasted for months and led to the Hariri government to resign after weeks. In their “revolution,” the Lebanese blamed political officials who have ruled Lebanon for decades for economic and living deterioration due to rampant corruption, compromise, neglect, and exploitation of influence.
On January 15, 2020, a government of specialists headed by Hassan Diab took power for seven months, but was unable to launch any reform due to the control of political forces.
In August, French President Emmanuel Macron intervened to help resolve the crisis and visited Lebanon for the first time and then a second time in September. The second visit culminated in the announcement of an initiative that said that all political forces had agreed and that it provided for the formation of a government that would undertake reforms according to a specific program, in exchange for financial assistance from the international community.
But the political forces failed to translate their promises and Ambassador Mustafa Adib, who was appointed to form the government, failed to form the government due to political divisions.
After Adib’s apology, Macron granted, on September 27, a new deadline for the political forces of “four to six weeks” to form a government, accusing the political class of “collective treason.”
It seems clear that the return of Hariri to the head of the government is part of the French initiative.
Hariri has recently announced that he is a candidate for prime minister, within the parameters of the French initiative. He said he intends to form a government of specialists that, within six months, will put the reforms on the way to implementation.
Today, Aoun accused political forces, without naming them, of obstructing reform efforts, the most recent of which was the criminal audit of the Central Bank’s accounts. “When I carried out the project of change and reform in an attempt to save the Homeland, those affected raised the barricades in my face,” he said, adding that “the reform remained as a slogan that officials and politicians repeat, and harbor otherwise”.
Aoun is being subjected to a violent campaign by a wide range of Lebanese who placed him in the ranks of all defenseless politicians and those working for their own interests.
The name Hariri is expected to enrage protesters.
