Forcing the election of Franjieh or Basil equals the extension of the border
NNA – “Nidaa Al-Watan” newspaper wrote: No meeting is expected soon between President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati. The authorship fluctuates in the lost time, and with the approaching constitutional time for electing a president of the republic, starting from the first of September, that is, after 43 days, during which the president-designate may not request a date to visit the palace, and President Aoun may not set a date for him in the event the communication between the two parties continues to be interrupted..
All of this is happening while the region has entered the post-Jeddah summit stage, which, at the conclusion of its proceedings, affirmed three Lebanese titles: extending state sovereignty over its entire territory, supporting the Lebanese army and the legitimate forces, and electing a president within the constitutional deadlines. These are the same headings stipulated in Resolution 1559, which was issued on September 2, 2004, in addition to the clause to withdraw the Syrian army from Lebanon. At that time, “Hezbollah” and the Syrian regime considered that this decision was only worth the ink that was written on it. The extension of President Emile Lahoud took place, the formation of the government of Prime Minister Omar Karami, and the forcing of Prime Minister Rafic Hariri to apologize. The decision to assassinate him was issued and carried out on February 14, 2005, which triggered the March 14 revolution and forced the exit of the Syrian army from Lebanon..
After the Jeddah summit, it means, in its Lebanese part, that there is a major shift that must mimic what happened in 2004. It must therefore be understood that Hezbollah’s attempt to impose the election of any president from the March 8 forces, such as the leader of the “Marada” movement, Suleiman Franjieh, or The head of the “Free Patriotic Movement”, Gibran Bassil, is equal in terms of political sin to the extension of former President Emile Lahoud, and will therefore have the same effects and similar repercussions at the level of the international resolution supported by Resolution 1701, which calls for the extension of the authority of the Lebanese state over its entire territory with the help of the international forces “UNIFIL”“.
In light of this new situation, it seems that the issue of forming a new government is no longer a priority, as if the issue was closed while waiting for time to be cut out of what remained of President Michel Aoun’s term, and waiting for the issue of electing a successor to him who could save Lebanon from the abyss he entered and apply specifications launched by the Patriarch. Bishara Al-Rai and he has been repeating it, since President Michel Aoun called for the restoration of the decision of legitimacy and its liberation from the grip of “Hezbollah” at the Saint Charbel mass in Bekaa Kafra last year, and he repeated it on more than one occasion this year, a president who does not meet the specifications that Hezbollah wants “. Because the party that was able to control the imposition of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the formation of previous governments will not be able to impose the election of the President of the Republic it wants, because this decision cannot come out of the Bkerke circle and the active Christian forces that achieved the majority in the recent parliamentary elections, and from the international and Arab decision circle that Can’t accept a president from the line of resistance.
Therefore, the ongoing sparring between Baabda and the Saray seems like a deaf dialogue that neither advances nor delays in the big game. Yesterday, the Prime Minister-designate returned from his vacation, which extended for about eight days, and it did not appear that in his agenda he requested a new date from President Aoun. Not because he does not want an appointment, but because he considers that the request for the appointment has taken place and he is still waiting for an answer and that the palace fixes this date for him. On the part of President Mikati, there is confirmation that he did what he had to do and that he presented to the President of the Republic, in his second meeting with him, an amended formula without disclosing this amendment, although some believe that it relates to the name of the minister proposed to assume the energy portfolio, which the president-designate insists not return to who represents it. Free Patriotic Movement“.
While in the Republican Palace, they consider that the president asked Mikati to amend the line-up according to more than one standard, and as long as Mikati did not call to report these amendments, why is a date set for him?
Furthermore. What the Free Patriotic Movement website leaked about three ideas that Aoun proposed to President Mikati to include in his draft has not been confirmed by Baabda circles outside the movement’s website, nor by the president-designate. These thoughts are:
1 – For Mikati to submit a draft that is a true copy of the caretaker government, to be signed by the President of the Republic, issued decrees, and represented as soon as possible before the Parliament in order to gain confidence to launch serious government work.
2 – To reconsider the government draft, in terms of new names, the distribution of ministries, and fair rotation according to clear criteria.
3 – That the government draft maintains the formula established by Mikati, provided that it is grafted with 6 state ministers, thus creating a techno-political government capable of coping with the next stage and the awaited challenges..
These ideas have not been forgotten by the movement since the process of naming the prime minister-designate began, as if, according to follow-up sources, it means that its president, Gibran Bassil, is trying to test the waters about these options, on the grounds that what suits him is the survival of this government because he will not be able to obtain the share he has in it. Any new government, then, in the form of a caretaker, may serve what is being promoted about the unconstitutionality of handing over the powers of the President of the Republic in the event that a successor cannot be elected, and thus the application of the theory of his stay in the palace. In sum, the picture appears in a nutshell: Aoun will not set a date for my appointment. Mikati will not ask for an appointment. No drafts of government formations. Mikati will work to activate the government, and throughout this week he will focus on livelihood and life issues and the way to resolve the public sector strike.
In short: there is nothing new after us
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