Introductions to the evening news for Monday 04/04/2022
* Introduction to the Lebanon TV news bulletin
A few hours separate from the start of the countdown to the electoral battle on the fifteenth of next May, with the deadline for registering the electoral lists at midnight, but with the escalation of electoral, political and propaganda heat among the political parties and groups involved in the elections, on the other hand, a popular coldness reflects a rivalry in the percentage of non-turnout. Voting as a result of the deteriorating conditions in the country
As of tomorrow, the heat of mobilization and electoral campaigns will intensify, reflecting the internal political conflict and the files of social, economic and financial crises
This evening, Prime Minister Najib Mikati visited the home of Progressive Socialist Party Chairman Walid Jumblatt in Clemenceau. After his meeting with Jumblatt, President Mikati confirmed that the visit was consultative and that there were no appointments in the next government session on Wednesday in the Serail..
As the International Monetary Fund delegation continues to meet in Beirut, President Mikati affirmed that the government is working through the concerned authorities in the public sector to unify the single and comprehensive vision for development, recovery and reform among those concerned, and we are close to completing the unification of this vision to implement the necessary reforms.
While the Deputy Prime Minister, His Excellency Al-Shami, stressed that negotiations are continuing between the Lebanese government and the International Monetary Fund, and the most important thing that was discussed today is the restructuring of the banking sector, the completion of the economic recovery plan, the approval of the budget in Parliament, and the approval of the Capital Control project, with the hope that we will soon sign the initial agreement..
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* Introduction to NBN TV newscast
To the parliamentary elections…. In the middle of tonight, the picture of the scene becomes clear on the day of the parliamentary entitlement on the fifteenth of next May in terms of competing lists with the closing of the registration door for these lists and the fall of the candidacy of the aspirants who did not find a list to join it or announce their withdrawal from the electoral battle.
According to what I learned NBN The number of registered lists until the time of preparing this bulletin exceeded ninety lists in all of Lebanon.
From the government, attention is turning to the cabinet session this week to follow up on the issue of food security, especially with the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan and the continued scarcity of some basic materials..
While the discussion and negotiation continues in parallel on the financial recovery plan, the head of the International Monetary Fund mission (Ernesto Rigo Ramirez) met with the economic authorities, which announced their categorical objection to the ease of solutions and the adoption of an accounting approach that works to zero losses without any considerations, especially preserving the rights of depositors and the continuation of the banking system, considering that this It will lead to the liquidation of the national economy with all its pillars.
On the other hand, Prime Minister Najib Mikati affirmed that the government is working through the relevant authorities in the public sector to unify the single and comprehensive vision for development, recovery and reform, revealing that matters are nearing completion of unifying this vision to implement the necessary reforms.
In the nuclear negotiations, Tehran announced today that it will return to Vienna only to complete the nuclear agreement with the great powers, and it is waiting for Washington’s response.
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* Introduction to the MTV News Bulletin
Lebanon lived today the calm before the storm. At midnight, that is, exactly four hours and fifteen minutes from now, the deadline for forming the lists ends, so that the electoral picture will crystallize once and for all. So, April 5 is another day, and from it the real electoral battle begins, and it is a tough battle because despite the multiplicity and multiplication of lists, it revolves around two ideas and two directions. The battle in the depth is between the sovereigns who want a single, capable state, and another faction that goes with Hezbollah, which in turn is following the Islamic Republic of Iran and its plans and expansionist dreams in the region. Which of the two logics will voters choose on May 5th? Will they say yes to the state or the state? Will they say yes to one Lebanese army on all Lebanese territory, or to two armies: one legitimate and the other illegal auxiliary? Finally, will they say yes to a state of welfare and prosperity, or to a state of mobile wars in the service of Iran’s imperial tendency?
Economically, the International Fund delegation continues its tours of officials, calling for accelerating the achievement of reforms.
But the people of the system are in another valley.
Their goal is to stall, and appoint them either to the elections or to appointments and formations.
But it is clear so far that the diplomatic formations will not pass, for two reasons: the first is the unwillingness of some of the pillars of the system to hand over the joints of the state to Gibran Bassil before the end of the reign of Michel Aoun, and the second reason is the dispute between the pillars of the system themselves over shares, gains and privileges.
In parallel, it was reported that the Minister of Energy would once again present to the Council of Ministers a project to build power production plants. It is noteworthy that construction projects do not pass the tenders department and do not adhere to a normal book of conditions, and the excuse is that the haste necessitates that. Are we governed by law and institutions, or is our only law: the law of the jungle? Therefore, dear Lebanese, you have participated extensively in the crucial electoral elections. The change: “Your voice sounds and your voice sounds..and on May 15th, let your voice change
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* Introduction to Al-Manar TV news bulletin
Nearly a hundred lists and colours, which drew the electoral scene forty days away from the opening of the polls.
To date, pulpits and screens have opened wide to slogans, strays, and advocates of democracy who have appeared on a despicable abolitionist reality. ..
While the ballot boxes are distributed among the sufferings of the Lebanese, many of the fake color campaigners were not able to present the people with a project that touches the cure for their pain. financial, environmental, cultural and social ..
While the country is hanging on reform intentions and negotiations with international financial institutions, and contrary to everything that the government and its president are talking about, its vice president, His Excellency Al-Shami, had a talk about the bankruptcy of the state and its central bank. Talk in a surprising timing, where is the interest of Lebanon while it is negotiating to find solutions and exits for its accumulated crises?
As for the waste that the Central Bank had accumulated in the streets of Dahia and Mount Lebanon, the treatment was two-fold, first, to raise it to the municipal unions with the support of Hezbollah, and secondly, to complain to the Prime Minister to request the Central Governor to disburse the striking company’s money ..
It is the partnership of the tired Lebanese, but it is not bankrupt, but rather looted and governed by a group that has controlled money and the economy for decades and knows how to blackmail people in order to serve its interests and wealth. ..
In Ukraine, there are political and media fabrications to blackmail Russia, to which Moscow responded by calling for an urgent session of the Security Council to discuss what the West called crimes in Bucha near Kyiv, which reminded the world of chemical fabrications in Syrian Ghouta and Khan Sheikhoun against the Syrian government, and Bucha today is a similar attempt against the Russian government, according to Russian experts ..
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* Introduction to the LBC TV newscast
Is the country bankrupt or not? The Bank of Lebanon is bankrupt or not?
The talk of the Deputy Prime Minister, His Excellency Al-Shami, about bankruptcy, ignited fears and questions, which prompted him to clarify today that the phrase he said was fragmented and he did not declare the bankruptcy of the state or the Central Bank, hinting that the negotiation with the IMF is going in the right direction. The Governor of the Banque du Liban stressed that what is being circulated about the bankruptcy of the Central Bank is incorrect.
Today, Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s visit to Walid Jumblatt in Clemenceau drew attention, and sources familiar with the meeting described the meeting as for consultation, while Prime Minister Mikati made it clear, in response to a question, that there were no appointments in Wednesday’s session..
Electorally, and four hours before the deadline for registering the lists expired, the madness of the elections appeared in more than one axis: the large number of lists that exceeded those registered in the 2018 elections.
The heat was to the extent that the President of the Republic intervened to reconcile. The President of the Republic, who is supposed to be at a distance from all the candidates, revealed today, Mr. Amal Abu Zeid, that he turned away from the decision to withdraw from the electoral battle “down to the desire and insistence of His Excellency the President of the Republic.”“.
This development is not news, because everyone knows the conciliatory role played by His Excellency the President, especially among the candidates of the current, as no role has appeared that has any conciliatory role outside the candidates of the current.
Amal Abu Zeid dismissed his withdrawal after an audio recording in which he described Representative Ziad Aswad as “a bad male and great hostility towards him, both personally and politically.”“.
But the words of the morning are erased by the evening, so Amal Abu Zayd will stand in one list with what he described as “badly mentioned”… It is the elections… “A train with many windows“.
Before entering into the details of the bulletin, we refer to family clashes in Tripoli, and talk about the death of more than one person.
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* Introduction to the new TV news bulletin
On this bankrupt land, what deserves to be elected.. the financial collapse did not cut off the path to the maturity of May, and the lists scrambled on the promised night to record the last names and alliances, and the bomb that Deputy Prime Minister Saadeh Al-Shami threw on the screen of the new came sound and did not cause more destruction than we are because it was thrown On a state that declared bankruptcy since it refrained from paying its debts. As for those who liked to be struck by surprise and shock factor, they were among the category of aware of this situation, but they want others to recognize it, and for their information and the information of citizens, the government of Hassan Diab announced in March of the year twenty-two that the state would stop paying the interests of its sovereign debts. Whether this procedure is described as defaulting, stopping, or postponing and suspending, we are at the same economic threshold: bankruptcy. In this case, His Excellency Al-Shami did not aim at happiness for the people, but he made the painful reality in all transparency, saying: The loss occurred, and this financial calendar eased the burden of Prime Minister Najib Mikati, declaring that Al-Shami’s statement was understood in a fragmented way, but no one was partial or exaggerated.. As Al-Shami said it a clear and valid phrase for publication with his mouth full, including the state and the Bank of Lebanon is not The Central Bank issued a statement of denial and said that everything that is being circulated about the bank’s bankruptcy is incorrect, whether by denial or confirmation. The causes of bankruptcy are cumulative due to financial, economic, political, judicial and diplomatic performance that brought us to these results and this behavior still exists as if a country did not fail.. and still The ruling is close to the cure of the solution with the disease of sharing, quotas and distributing spoils, the last of which is the diplomatic formations that transformed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs into a farm whose herd is led by more than one king over the jungle. For the son of a supported president or ambassador to trample efficiency and hierarchy.. He pulls the powerful from the bottom and gives them the highest diplomatic dividend. Thus, the state goes bankrupt diplomatically, just as it goes financially bankrupt when he appoints a treasury minister who does not contradict his political authority with absent competencies. Accounting departments.. No one is frankly shocked by His Excellency Al-Shami because he did less than his duty and did not enter the thickened and corrupt wounds of the head of states And fear that this pandemic will infiltrate parliamentary elections, from which it was hoped that the Eid of Change will come. On the borders of this night, the lists will be closed.. Some of them closed their alliances on the basis of incompatibility and the outside born from the lists of the revolution. Today, the candidate of Tripoli, Yahya Mawloud, who expressed in a statement of reluctance to express Some bitterness, leaving in secrets more than one reason for electoral divergence from lists that no longer resemble him.. He shortened his reluctance by saying: Why should I enter a list that I will not be able to defend who is in it? On the long day of the lists, Tripoli recorded the highest percentage in the electoral contest, which means that the Sunni voice will be louder in the elections He will not be bound by the future and to the north. He tightened the “ring” over Gibran Bassil, by the choice of the candidate, William Touq, the alliance with the Marada, leaving the current swimming in a sea of heavy regulations.
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