2023-09-06 21:00:00
Although Paris has not yet officially announced the date for the return of the French presidential envoy, Jean-Yves Le Drian, to resume his mission in Beirut, which is expected on the 11th of September, as previously reported by An-Nahar, it seemed clear that the heat of preparations for this return took an upward character, indicating the high stakes on it to achieve A breakthrough in the blockage that characterizes the presidential crisis, even without exaggerating these bets. Perhaps what contributed to raising the pace of the appeal to Le Drian’s mission in the last hours was the monitoring of two prominent factors: The first factor is that the uproar that escalated over Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri’s proposal to hold the seven-day dialogue in the House of Representatives and then hold successive sessions to elect the President of the Republic, began to tend to calculations. The coldness that the various forces are conducting regarding the possibility of this dialogue being held, who attended or not, and what will result from it in the event that it is held and did not lead to any result that pushes the crisis to a breakthrough. This does not mean that the proposal has been removed from the table, but rather that it is still the focus of discussions and positions related to the political and parliamentary sorting that it brought about. However, the factual data related to the proposal mitigated the hyperbole that some parties tried to use to record political and media gains over the opponents of this dialogue. In this context, it was remarkable that those who relied on the recent position of the Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Mar Beshara Boutros Al-Rahi, in whom he considered that he distinguished himself from the opposition on the issue of dialogue, must have noticed the indications that the monthly statement of the Maronite Bishops’ Council yesterday, headed by Al-Rahi, did not mention any mention of the topic of dialogue and limitation The Council’s position is to invite the deputies again to assume their duties by electing the President of the Republic. As for the second factor, according to the data…
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