The Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Rai, learned that “Hezbollah, after hesitation, entered the indirect negotiation line between its two allies, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and the head of the Free Patriotic Movement, Representative Gibran Bassil, especially after the media confrontation erupted between them the day after Basil’s first appearance after the elections. “.
She pointed out that “it was understood from follow-up sources that Hezbollah, exhausted by the BB conflict, that is, Berri and Basil, is seeking to ensure that the Basil movement, or at least some of it, will vote for Berri’s election in order to secure the minimum “charter” and the acceptable number of votes.
These sources told “Al-Rai” that “negotiating with Basil is like “digging the depths” to find out the “consolidation prize” that he wants, and he considered the position of the vice president and negotiating it as an understatement.
She added, “Although monitoring circles ruled out that Bassil had admitted the diminishing chance of him reaching the position of the first presidency for various reasons, the latest of which was the election results, they did not rule out that the trade-off that the head of the Free Patriotic Movement wanted was related to the next government, its nature and its balances.”
And she continued, “No one can now provide guarantees related to the government, whose formation is combined with several internal and external factors, and that the most that Bassil, who came out weak from the elections, can obtain, is the deputy speaker of parliament and understandings related to the council’s office, committees and files that will be according to key in the upcoming parliamentary workshop.