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Beirut – Omar Habanjar
The prime minister-designate, Mustafa Adib, yesterday in Baabda presented President Michel Aoun with the latest developments on emerging and deep-seated obstacles to the formation of his government.
After the meeting ended, Adeeb said: I agreed with President Aoun to allow more time for consultations, and we hope everyone will cooperate. He added: We don’t have the luxury of time and we count on everyone’s cooperation to form a government.
Simultaneously, the US Treasury Department announced “the imposition of sanctions related to Lebanon on two companies and one individual for their alleged links to Hezbollah.”
The ministry stated, in a statement, that it had imposed sanctions on Lebanese companies Arch Consulting and Meamar Construction, saying they were under the direction or control of “Hezbollah.”
The United States Department of the Treasury also included in its sanctions list Lebanese citizen Sultan Khalifa Asaad, vice president of the Executive Council of Hezbollah.
He said Hezbollah worked with former Minister Yusef Fenianos to ensure that the two companies won bids for government contracts worth millions of dollars, and the two companies had sent some of the proceeds from these contracts to the Hezbollah Executive Council.
The ministry accused Hezbollah of exploiting the “Arch” and “Meamar” companies to conceal money transfers to their private accounts, which would further enrich its leaders and supporters and deprive the Lebanese people of desperately needed money.
Adeeb’s appointment was in Baabda at eleven in the morning, but he called President Aoun, as it was agreed to meet at five in the afternoon for further consultations, in the time between the two appointments, and that the meeting was to review contacts and consultations, not to present a government formation or discuss names.
“Al-Anbaa” learned that within the new program of the designated president, a series of consultations with the heads of the parliamentary blocs that appointed him to head the government include the “bilateral Shiite”.
Observers agreed that the government could be born between next Sunday or Monday, after the winds of optimism blew from Moscow through Paris, whose information indicates that it knocked on the Russian door for Iran to respond, and this reduced the level of political tension in Beirut, and there was talk of exits to the knot of the Ministry of Finance. In which the “Shiite duo” insists, for charitable reasons, as if the minister is a Shiite specialist and is independent of the parties, or if he does not have a sect or doctrine accepted by the “Shiite duo”, according to the journalist Fadi. Abu Diya, close to Hezbollah On “Al-Jadid” channel yesterday morning, under the title Preserving the rotation principle.
In the same context, criticism began to be directed at the way in which Adeeb treated the forces that nominated him after the mandate not to contact or consult and work to form a government in accordance with the principle of the matter for me, confining his consultations to former prime ministers, led by former prime minister Saad Hariri, whose sources say his entire concern is cramming Gibran. Basil and Al-Ahed are on the angle of confusion and failure, pointing out whether Adeeb should be more flexible with the “Shiite duo” after the announcement of US sanctions against the ministers of “Amal” and “Al-Marada” .
The “Free Patriotic Movement” is supposed to issue an affirmative position on respecting the principle of rotation. Sources of the former prime ministers assure that the head of the movement, Gebran Bassil, who used to “fly” messages of affection to Washington via Paris, threatened to return to demand the Ministry of Energy for his team if the rotation was violated.
The last hours witnessed contacts between the “Shiite duo” and the French that led to the opening of a breach in the closed wall, which was later completed with Baabda and with President-designate Mustafa Adib, who left the task of putting pressure on the saboteurs to the French president, who contacted him the day before yesterday, and advised him not to be in a hurry to apologize. .
It was reported that Egyptian-French contacts to help deal with the Lebanese archive, by virtue of Egypt’s historical interest in Lebanon, noting that Cairo has a bad relationship with Hezbollah, but is in contact with the Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri.
French sources eased the environment of frustration they were exporting to Beirut, and in response to Hezbollah reservations about interfering in the formation of the government and the way it prepares its program, they told those concerned that it is up to the Lebanese parties to come to a solution. to the problem of the claim of the “Shiite duo” to the Ministry of Finance.
The French ambassador to Beirut, Bernard Faucher, received at the Pinnacle Palace, at his request, the party’s foreign relations official, Ammar al-Mousawi, and presented him with the government file.
The Bloc of Loyalty to the Resistance emphasized the importance of the French initiative, holding the American administration responsible for hitting the stability of Lebanon and interrupting the formation of the government, and declared its refusal “categorically to let someone appoint the ministers who represent us in the government or that prohibits the component that represents us to receive any portfolio or portfolio exclusively from the Ministry of Finance “. .
And he considered that the attempts of some “to intimidate abroad to form a rigged government with representation are attempts to empty the French initiative.”
The head of the Lebanese Forces Party, Samir Geagea, who did not participate in the consultations and will not participate in the government, described what happened until yesterday morning as a real mockery, and renewed the demand for early elections to reach a new majority to remove and replace this “ruling group”, considering that frustrating the French initiative is a crime against Lebanon. .
Optimism has resurfaced with the birth of the government in the last quarter of an hour, based on the efforts made by foreign, multi-capitalist and local companies, undertaken by President-designate Mustafa Adeeb, with the role of assistant to Major General Abbas Ibrahim , who resumed his efforts to build bridges among the diaspora.
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