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Beirut – The Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri, expressed his pessimism about the Lebanese situation on the possibility of reaching an agreement on the new government soon.
“We entered the tunnel and I don’t know how we will get out,” Berri told the Lebanese Republic newspaper. We have become a deplorable state and the government situation is completely blocked. “But he expressed his hope that French President Emmanuel Macron can provide assistance on his next visit.
Observers see that Berri’s statements warning about the extent of the danger facing Lebanon does not exempt him from assuming responsibility for the state of affairs, especially when he insists with Hezbollah and President Michel Aoun on the participation of the parties in the ministerial formation and the distribution of the government according to the quota principle, which hampered efforts to save Lebanon.
Berri’s comments came just a day after a discussion broke out and an exchange of accusations between Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri and President Michel Aoun revealed their disagreement over the formation of the government.
“Why is this blockade?” Said Berri, an ally of the Iranian-backed Shiite group Hezbollah. In fact, the answer lies with the president of the Republic and the designated president, and God willing, French President Emmanuel Macron will be able to do something on his next visit, and we can only wait.
Macron is due to visit Lebanon later this month on his third visit since the port explosion, which has exacerbated the economic crisis resulting from decades of corruption and mismanagement, causing Lebanon’s worst crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war.
After the explosion, Macron led efforts to get Lebanese leaders to agree to a new government that could implement reforms that would allow the return of international aid.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in previous statements that the political and economic collapse in Lebanon is similar to the sinking of the Titanic, but only without the music that the orchestra is believed to have been playing while the ship was sank.
Four months after the massive explosion that killed more than 200 people and devastated large swaths of the capital, Beirut, Lebanon came close to forming a credible government to push through reforms in the bankrupt state, despite French efforts to persuade politicians to implement partial reforms to counteract the state of emergency.
Many believe that one of the main reasons preventing the formation of a new government in Lebanon that undertakes reforms is the waiting of the forces that control the scene for the arrival of the new US administration led by Democrat Joe Biden.
These forces, especially Hezbollah and President Michel Aoun’s Free Patriotic Movement, expect a change in the way the United States deals with it that may never happen.
The leader of the Sunni “Movement of the Future”, Saad Hariri, was appointed to lead and form the new government of Lebanon, in light of the results of the binding parliamentary consultations that took place on October 22, which led to Hariri leaving. elected by 65 deputies of 120 members in the House of Representatives.
Since last year, Lebanon has witnessed an economic collapse that coincided with an unprecedented drop in the value of the lira. In March, the state defaulted on its external debts and then began negotiations with the International Monetary Fund, which were later suspended due to differences between Lebanese negotiators.
