The Lebanese president raises the ceiling of the confrontation with his opponents

Lebanese President Michel Aoun’s speech raised the roof of political confrontations with all political forces, and parliament did not give a clue when asked about proposals for reform of laws and others, amid questions from the opposition about the timing of this speech, which “arrived without an important occasion or event generally accompanied by the President of the Republic. A speech addressed to the Lebanese ”, despite acknowledging that it is their“ constitutional right ”, but, according to opposition circles,“ a precedent in the presidential speeches that precede the parliamentary consultations ”.
While the circles of Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri did not comment on the speech, nor did the circles of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, opposition sources believed that Aoun’s speech indicated a battle that will accompany the formation of the government, after losing the battle. assignments, and draw a clear map for the composition that will witness a political struggle.
Political sources opposed to “Asharq Al-Awsat” said that Aoun “has the right to send a message to the Lebanese, but chose a time between postponing the consultations last week and the eve of the new date for parliamentary consultations. binding “to be held today, saying that the previous postponement” was intended to deport Hariri through The bet is to withdraw his name from the negotiation, which was not carried out, and the postponement had no negative action.
Regarding the content of the speech in which Aoun did not mention the French initiative or the negotiations with Israel to demarcate the borders, and only referred to international initiatives, the sources said that Aoun “washed his hands of the problems and threw them into others; Including the House of Representatives “, noting that his speech” is understood by him to admit that there is no change in the postponement of consultations. “And as the sources saw that when urging the deputies to choose in the consultations, he” He put conditions on them. “She said:” The message of the speech is that he lost the allocation battle, and now he is betting on the authorship battle, and this is Deputy Gebran Bassil’s bet to return it again, “based on” the imposed siege. “On Basilio, who also lost the start-up battle.
Among the responses to Aoun, a deputy of the “Democratic Encounter”, Faisal Al-Sayegh, asked: “Where do we come from a president who proposes solutions to the problems of the Lebanese and leads a reform process that saves them from their miserable situation , instead of complaining about a reality in which he participated and contributed to aggravating it? Where did Path’s brother-in-law come from in a state of failure, extremism, corruption and avoidance of responsibilities? “
A member of the “powerful Republican bloc”, MP Wahbi Qatisha, said that “the noise of Prime Minister Saad Hariri will begin after the assignment under the conditions imposed by the Shiite duo and the (progressive socialist)”, awaiting the participation of the ” strong block of Lebanon “. (The National Movement Bloc), in the process of being drafted despite opposition to Hariri’s assignment.
Commenting on the president’s speech, the resigned deputy Nadim Gemayel tweeted, through his Twitter account: “The words of the President of the Republic, Michel Aoun today, confirm his failure and inability to manage the country and the crisis. He said so frankly, “noting that” the presidential vacuum we live in. Today is the most dangerous in light of the delivery of the entire country to the Iran axis, his cronies and the president’s entourage.