The Middle East
The Lebanese Hezbollah and its allies rely in their electoral campaigns on slogans that have become mostly well-known and often amount to treason, which seems clear in the recent period with the intensification of the electoral campaigns in the speeches raised by their officials to urge their voters to participate in the polls. to make the electoral battle a “regional confrontation” and that “voting is a jihadist matter” and a “devotional opportunity”; As they put it.
There is hardly an occasion in which Hezbollah and Amal Movement officials participate in the electoral discourse. Even Parliament Speaker, Amal Speaker, Nabih Berri, previously described the elections as “one of the most important and dangerous elections since (the Taif Agreement) until now,” speaking of “external interventions wrapped in bright headlines, the most obvious of which are the open attempts to invest cheaply in people’s pain.” Their crises, their livelihoods, and their just demands…”
University professor and anti-party activist in the Shiite environment, Dr. Mona Fayyad, considers the elections for the “dual” today to be “life or death,” as they “are making efforts to obtain a parliamentary majority to hold the country for the next thirty years, and therefore; Their reliance on this discourse undoubtedly stems from their fear of a change in the popular mood in light of the crisis that everyone in Lebanon is suffering from and has affected their society as well as all societies.”
Despite the positions of the “party” and “Amal” officials, which emphasize the “strength of the duo,” especially in areas that are known to be affiliated with it, such as the south and the Bekaa, their call to participate in the poll reached something like a “legitimate assignment,” which some see as fear. From the expansion of the opposition’s presence in these areas. This “assignment” was expressed yesterday by the representative of the Amal Movement, Hani Qubeisi, who said that participation in the parliamentary elections is “a fundamental jihadist matter to preserve Lebanon’s reality, its resistance and its unity in the face of all conspirators.” The same thing was previously expressed by the head of the party’s political council, Ibrahim Amin al-Sayed, last Monday, when he said that “the elections are before they are a political opportunity and a position. to go to the polls; Because voting is like praying in mosques.”
Here, Fayyad confirms in her interview with Asharq Al-Awsat that “the methods and pressures adopted by (the duo), including (legal assignment) and providing aid, are not new, and he resorts to them at every maturity, so as to ensure the largest possible participation of his audience, a large part of which is committed to this. assignment.” While acknowledging the difficulty of confrontation with the “duplex” in particular and the parties in general, Fayyad considers that the challenge or “hope” remains that no party will obtain a majority; Any fragmentation of parties in Parliament.
With Hezbollah keen to show the battle as a regional one against its weapons, yesterday, the deputy head of Hezbollah’s Executive Council, Sheikh Ali Damoush, went to consider that the confrontation is not with the “insiders’ tools” in Lebanon, and said: “Tools and cronies are incapable of That they face (Hezbollah) and the resistance in the parliamentary elections, and the real electoral battle is not with them; Rather, it is with their masters (…) who harness all their media and financial capabilities, siege, sanctions and starvation in order to break the resistance and keep people away from it, and they are betting at a minimum on weak participation and a lack of turnout at the polls.”
Dr. Fayyad commented on showing the battle as regional and as a confrontation with the “masters of the interior”, by saying: “They talk about the masters of others at a time when no one has masters but them and by their own admission, and no one used weapons against their opponents as they did, and therefore what they do is no more than Propaganda and lies.
The leadership of “Hezbollah” and “Amal” movement in the south held a unified meeting yesterday, where the elections were a major focus on the discussion table. Specifically in terms of social assistance, which in Lebanon turns into “electoral bribery” during the election season. A statement issued by the two parties indicated that they focused “on the approved procedures, programs and offerings to ease the burdens on our people in the face of the living and financial crisis afflicting the country, and (they reviewed) the latest preparations for the upcoming parliamentary elections.” Electricity, stressing “the necessity of conducting it on time with the renewal of the declaration of the depth of the alliance between (Hezbollah) and (Amal movement), which is a guarantee for the stability of the country, its sovereignty and the freedom of its people in the face of all attempts of hegemony, subordination and normalization,” and there was a call from them to “participate.” The active and dense in these elections due to its importance in shaping the future of Lebanon and preserving its resistance as an option to deter the enemies and bring down all their conspiracies and projects.