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Beirut / Hassan Darwish / Anatolia
“Of course Ajhnam.” With this surprising and shocking phrase, the Lebanese president, Michel Aoun, responded, on Monday, to a journalist who asked him, “Wayne Raheen”, if the parties do not agree to form a government?
The Lebanese fear that the situation in their country will worsen, especially because it has been suffering for months an economic crisis that is the worst since the civil war (1975: 1990) and strong political polarization, in a scenario in which the interests of the regional and western countries.
Aoun added, during a press conference broadcast by local television channels, that the country “today is facing a crisis in the formation of a government, it was not supposed to happen, because the benefits that await it do not allow any minute to be wasted.”
On August 31, Aoun appointed Mustafa Adeeb to form a government to succeed the current interim government, led by Hassan Diab, who resigned on August 10, 6 days after a catastrophic explosion in the port of the capital, Beirut.
He added that he offered logical and intermediate solutions to form a government, but they were not accepted. “Therefore, returning to the constitutional texts and respecting them continues to be the solution in which there is no winner or loser.”
The Shiite duo, “Hezbollah” and “Amal” movement, insist on obtaining the portfolio of the Ministry of Finance, which represents an obstacle to the formation of a government.
Aoun said: “The constitution does not provide for the allocation of any ministry to any of the sects or to any of the parties, and no minister can receive an authority that is not stipulated in the constitution.”
And he warned that “with the hardening of positions, a solution is not on the horizon soon, because all the solutions that are offered are often deficient.
The 1989 Taif Agreement, which ended the civil war, established the power-sharing formula based on quotas that distribute the main positions among the three main components, namely Christians, Sunnis and Shiites.
Aoun added: “The Shiite duo insist on sticking to the Ministry of Finance and appointing the minister and all the ministers of the honorable Shiite community.”
And he continued: “On the other hand, the designated president (Adeeb) does not want to take into account the opinion of the heads of the blocks (parliamentarians) in the distribution of portfolios and appointments of ministers, and proposes a comprehensive rotation, and former prime ministers meet him in this situation.
And he continued: “It is not allowed to exclude representative blocs from the government formation process, because it is these blocs that will grant or deny confidence in the Representative Council (Parliament).”
He added: “Likewise, it is not allowed to impose ministers and portfolios of one party on others, especially because it does not have a parliamentary majority.
He noted that Adeeb “made four visits to the presidential palace, and was unable to present any conception, composition, distribution of suitcases or names, and the contract was not dissolved.”
And he added: “The hardening of the situation will not lead us to any result, except for further escalation, while Lebanon is what it needs most in light of all its successive crises, some solution and solidarity so that it can rise up and face its problems”.
Aoun suggested “abolishing the sectarian distribution of the ministries that were called sovereignty and not assigning them to specific sects. Rather, making them available to all sects, so that the ability to achieve, not sectarian affiliation, is the criterion in the election. of the ministers “.
He continued: “Neither harassment will benefit us, nor harassment abroad will work. Only our understanding based on the constitution and balance is what will lead us to stability and recovery.”
On Thursday, Adeeb announced that he had agreed with Aoun to “wait and give more time” to form government consultations.
On the French initiative for Lebanon, Aoun said: “We consulted (French President Emmanuel) Macron on the status quo, but it is we who form the government, not the French president.”
Adeeb’s assignment coincided with an inspection visit to Beirut by Macron, which sparked accusations against him of interfering in Lebanese affairs, especially the government formation process, in an attempt to preserve France’s influence in the country that it occupied between 1920 and 1943.
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