“The sanctions are a message for me and” financial “or nothing … this is how Berri reads the latest news

Nicolas Nassif wrote in the newspaper “Al-Akhbar” under the headline “Berri: We will not participate without” Finances “:” If it is necessary to link the recent US sanctions with what French President Emmanuel Macron said, at the end of his second visit to Beirut on the first of September, in connection with his study. And their American and European allies impose sanctions on obstructive Lebanese parties, there is a possible explanation for this link: the retribution of the two former ministers, Ali Hassan Khalil and Yusef Fenianos, is nothing more than an American accompaniment to the French initiative with a dose Additional, which is that the sanctions are in at this particular time – before the spoilers you spoke of. Macron: it is nothing more than a preventive step to avoid raising your head.

The speaker of parliament, Nabih Berri, has a contradictory point of view, which callers have heard from him. The implication is that these sanctions are aimed at curbing the French dynamics to form the government and lift Lebanon out of its ordeal, and the information available to it from important sources indicates that the French have nothing to do with that.
What those who called Berri heard is that he is directly concerned about the message of sanctions, especially since the punished is the next number one in the Amal movement in terms of the position he occupies close to him as the main assistant. In addition, the Council Speaker distinguishes between the work to which the sanctions message is directed and the formation of a government that does not deviate – whatever the weight of external interference – from norms and customs that no one can ignore or skip: We are with a government of 100 percent specialists, with a minimum of political flavor. Simple though. We do not want them partisans, not even close to partisans. But we definitely don’t want them to fall on us when they are the ones who live abroad and don’t know what the country is. I give the name. If you were rejected, I would like a compelling explanation for your rejection, so I’d give it another name, God willing.
What Berri does not hide is his fear of pressuring the designated president to lead him to apologize for not forming a government.
In the ambiguous timing that sparked more than one speculation, the US sanctions came in the middle of the 15-day window Macron gave President-designate Mustafa Adib to form the government. Some saw it as an interceptor tree to stop the momentum of the French initiative, while others saw it at the core of the initiative’s program, after Macron in Beirut linked sanctions and corruption. This is not the American approach to the concept of sanctions focused on besieging Hezbollah and depleting its sources of funding as its sole and primary objective. To this end, Washington previously issued sanctions against party officials, parliamentarians and security leaders as an integral part of what it viewed as the fight against terrorism and money laundering and their use in attacks. ” Press here.