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On Monday, Prime Minister-designate Mustafa Adib put Lebanese President Michel Aoun in the atmosphere of the consultations he is conducting to form a government, without offering any training, while the deadline set by French President Emmanuel Macron for the class Complete membership policy is about to expire.
This comes after two major political forces criticized at least the authorship process, namely the Free Patriotic Movement headed by Gebran Bassil, son-in-law of the President of the Republic, and the Amal Movement headed by the Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri .
The two sides are allies of Hezbollah, currently Lebanon’s most powerful political force.
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, started the authorship consultations on September 2, without yet revealing 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.”
He explained that “the events of the last two days required more consultations.”
For its part, France reiterated its call for “the rapid formation of an important government that can implement reforms that are essential for the advancement of the country.” A spokeswoman for the French Foreign Ministry said: “All Lebanese political forces have committed themselves to this goal. It is up to them to translate this commitment into action without delay.”
“It is their responsibility, as the President of the Republic made clear during his visit, and as we continue to remind the Lebanese authorities,” said Agnes von der Mol.
On Sunday, the president of Parliament announced that the Amal movement did not want to participate in the government according to the “foundations” followed by Adeeb, stressing that “the problem is not with the French”, but rather “internal”.
The daily “Al-Nahar” reported on Friday that Berri stipulates that the money bag will remain “in the hands of a Shiite figure”, as it has been since 2014, by rejecting the principle of bag rotation adopted by Adeeb, which means that no match should stick to a specific bag.
France has been exerting pressure since the horrific port explosion on political forces to form a government that will undertake 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.
The Al-Akhbar newspaper, close to Hezbollah, headlined its front page on Monday, “Paris Faces the Test: Consensus or Political Explosion.” And he affirmed that “the Shiite duo will not accept a de facto government.”
