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This position is in addition to a new point of divergence with Hezbollah, which is the separation from it on the issue of the white paper, as the strong Lebanon bloc may name a figure for whom it will vote for the presidency of the republic.

According to the information, Hezbollah will build on what is required, with an emphasis on a change in Hezbollah’s agenda, in terms of preparing for developments that the region may witness in terms of possible confrontations between the “axis of resistance” to which Hezbollah belongs, and Israel and the axis to which it belongs headed by the United States with Vibrations worldwide.

And these serious repercussions, as the electricity supply became zero hours, in most regions, an international report revealed that Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, was ranked in the 240th degree, i.e. only two degrees before the last, among the cities with the worst living conditions, in terms of cost, and the decline in purchasing power and the cost of housing, with Non-stop collapses in the national currency exchange rate.

In the presidential sphere, informed political sources explained to Al-Liwaa that the upcoming week opens with moving the presidential file through a call for the election session and meetings between a number of parliamentary blocs to coordinate positions, in addition to showing pictures related to the names of the presidential nomination club intervention by some forces, especially the Free Patriotic Movement. The sources pointed out that this movement does not necessarily result in a result, but is better than the stalemate, stressing that there is no actual initiative to transfer the issue of the presidency to the final solution, provided that it is necessary to wait for what the Speaker of the House of Representatives may present regarding the opposition’s call for open election sessions.

Lebanese or European judiciary

With the return of Lebanon’s judges, or at least some of them, to resume work in the palaces of justice, public opinion is divided at home, regarding the role that will be entrusted to the European investigation mission, under the title of the survey, amid inconsistent information regarding the parties that will be requested to be heard, and whether it is among them. Riad Salameh, Governor of the Banque du Liban, or not.

At this time, the criminal justice investigations are expanding by fighting what has been termed the fight once morest corruption, starting with the Car Registration Authority, to the real estate departments, and all the way to the ministries of works, health, and education, once morest the backdrop of creating a file that allows disciplinary measures to be taken once morest employees in the public sector, within the framework of consistency with the requirements of The International Monetary Fund regarding cooperation and the conclusion of the loan agreement that was promised to Lebanon a year or more ago, and nothing was achieved from it.

European corruption investigation

On the other hand, a judicial delegation from France, Germany and Luxembourg arrives today in Lebanon to interrogate 30 financial and banking figures, reportedly including the Governor of the Banque du Liban, Riad Salameh.

The information indicated that the mission of the European delegations will start next Monday, and it will be divided into several stages. In a first stage limited to five days, starting Monday and ending Friday, regarding 15 people will be subject to investigation, not including Riad Salameh, and it will include senior officials in the Central Bank and managers of Lebanese banks. The Public Prosecutor at the Court of Cassation, Judge Ghassan Oweidat, assigned the head of the Central Criminal Investigation Department, Colonel Nicolas Saad, with the task of notifying the persons to be interrogated of the dates of the hearings.

To this end, Oweidat met in his office, yesterday followingnoon, with two delegations from the French and German embassies, and they discussed arrangements for the arrival of judicial delegations and defining the mechanism for cooperation between the two parties. and the procedures that will accompany it.

Oweidat said that the mission of the European judicial delegation, which will arrive in Lebanon next Monday, is to interrogate people who were previously interrogated by the Lebanese judiciary as witnesses, with the exception of one person who will be interrogated as a suspect. This delegation wants to explore where the judicial letters of attorney in the file handled by Judge Ziyad Abu Haidar, whose investigation was halted due to the response requests that were submitted once morest him.

He pointed out that the delegation’s visit may be followed by other visits, but not necessarily in a consecutive manner, but as needed.

He revealed that the persons required to be interrogated number 15, not including the Governor of the Banque du Liban, Riad Salameh.

He pointed out that the files to be investigated by the judicial delegation fall under the chapter of corruption, which is the same file in the Appeal Public Prosecution Office, which has been suspended for some time for the reasons I mentioned earlier.

It was learned that the concerned banks number five, and are related to correspondent banks, regarding the movement of money transfers, in addition to employees of the suspected banks, including a person from the Aoun family.

In the midst of this, the presidential horizon is still blocked internally and externally, despite the ongoing movement of more than one bloc and parliamentary group. This negative reality was confirmed by the Director General of Public Security, Major General Abbas Ibrahim, who said Saturday in a meeting at Al-Makassed Hospital, in response to a question regarding possible mediation in the presidential file: “I do not miss a suicide bomber on any file… The local and international circumstances do not help at the moment.”

But what is new is what was announced by the member of the strong Lebanon bloc, Asaad Dergham: We have a meeting on Tuesday that will resolve the issue of naming and the consensual person that we may vote for in the next session.

Therefore, it does not seem that the presidential election will witness any significant development in the upcoming electoral session this week, with the exception of the announcement by the member of the strong Lebanon bloc, Asaad Dergham, to break out of the white paper stereotype, as he said in a televised interview: We have a meeting on Tuesday that will resolve the issue of naming and the consensual person we may vote for in next session. While the movement of independent and change-making representatives is still unable to come to an agreement on a specific name to agree upon.

And a number of independent deputies who conduct visits and meetings with political references confirm that they have not agreed on any candidate yet, and that the positions are still the same divergent as a result of the existing political divisions, and that what is being worked on lies in trying to agree on a common name between most forces and blocs. The Nepalese are on both sides of the division and on the program and plan of action of the future president, which adopts the main title of salvation, even if the opposition forces abandon the candidacy of Michel Moawad if the name of the president and his program are agreed upon.

And on the side of the “deputies of change”, their sources confirm that matters with this group are still ranging from disagreement over one name. Rather, there is a basket of three or four names that are being discussed, (Ziyad Baroud, Salah Hanin, Nassif Hitti, and Issam Khalifa) and several meetings were held to deliberate There are options, but no one has made a final decision or pushed towards adopting a specific option. So everything remains as it is until further notice.