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Central nodes glued from number to rotation and distribution to sects
The optimistic atmosphere that dominated the consultations to form a government in recent days has receded with the return of talking about a contract that interferes with the foundations of the composition process, especially those related to the number of ministers and the rotation of portfolios. of the distribution of sovereign and service ministries.
Sources familiar with the communications told Asharq Al-Awsat: “There is an ongoing discussion on some issues related to the distribution of bags to sects and parties, and others related to service ministries, such as health and employment. It will need additional days, after it was expected to be announced early next week.
On the other hand, MP Qassem Hashem in the “Development and Liberation” bloc (headed by President Nabih Berri) emphasized the positive atmosphere in the consultations, but said at the same time that he needed more contacts.
“The silence surrounding the course of government authorship signals positivity on the basis of achieving success and passing matters without further complications and interference,” Hashem added in a radio interview. He added: “Today the whole atmosphere is positive and has not changed despite the many conversations we have become accustomed to as a result of the Lebanese reality and its composition, and the matter needs more contacts and consultations to be carried out by the designated prime minister. , Saad Hariri, to turn the corners, smooth the little knots and arrive at the final form of the future government. “
And refute these contracts in the following way: «First, the complex of form in terms of number will include 18 or 20 ministers, and the second issue refers to the bags and their sectarian distribution. Here I point out that the principle of rotation has not been finally agreed and that the consultation is still in force, with the exception of finances, which has become inevitable that it will be on the part of the Shiite community.
Regarding the abandonment of health by Hezbollah in exchange for work, Hashem said: “This matter is still being discussed and has not yet been resolved.” The delay in training was attributed to the nature of the Lebanese system, “Publicly, one day we will emerge from this structure that governs us with a return to reality in the Lebanese democratic game.”
On the same contract, the deputy of the Progressive Socialist Party, Bilal Abdullah, spoke and said that “whoever handles the issues in the government’s file has the responsibility, and is aware of the failure of the French initiative, and is trying to frustrate the government of rescue to satisfy those who are outside Lebanon, awaiting the American elections. “
He noted: “Bringing up a new contract here and there, among what was mentioned by what was said about a dispute over the number of ministers between 18 or 20 because of the Druze minister, and here we say that a party in the presidential palace brings this news and puts it in the media to suggest that the problem is Druze and that the head of the “socialist” “Walid Jumblatt interrupts the formation of the government and therefore the existing mentality is of domination and control, and they were not satisfied for having brought the country to such a low level ”.
He remarked that “the Socialist Party has not yet asked what it wants in the government, and in a personal capacity I demand defense, internal or external, or even justice, because I refuse to give us the crumbs of what remains. We have powers in the Socialist Party of all the sects. ” He asked: “Why is there talk of giving Interior and Defense to the President of the Republic, when he is above all authorities? Why demand action? He considered that this demand is a “covert action of the Free Patriotic Movement.”
For its part, the “Free Patriotic Movement” called to respect the unity of constitutional and constitutional standards in the formation of government. In its periodic meeting headed by Representative Gebran Bassil, the political body requested “to accelerate the formation of the government and not to link this internal law to any external factor or development, since the formation of the government is a Lebanese matter and a constitutional duty, and Lebanon cannot afford to waste time. “
Al-Tayyar mentioned that “the French initiative, with its reform points, needs an efficient and productive government of ministers who are capable of implementing the program and are specialists, which means the need to have a specialized minister at the head of each ministry Therefore, assigning more than one ministerial portfolio to a minister is a blow to the principle of competition. Especially if the minister collects arbitrarily between two portfolios, the jurisdiction of one has no relation to the other.
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