Smiling hard – home
Unlike electoral areas in which the Free Patriotic Movement left vacant seats and reduced the candidates on its lists, the movement did not apply the same standard in the northern Matn district, and re-nominated its current deputies in the House of Representatives, Ibrahim Kanaan, Elias Abu Saab and Eddie Maalouf, despite the confirmation of election experts. The impossibility of securing more than one candidate for the current list, due to new factors that occurred in the electoral state of the movement and a significant decline in its popularity.
This issue began to show its negative aspects on the orange list as the election date approached and the electoral enthusiasm doubled, and dissatisfaction among the current candidates was circulated in the salons, amid whispers about a “hidden pole” and the bias of the leadership of the movement and its tendency to cast votes and focus on the Catholic seat to drop the candidate on the list. The Forces,” Melhem al-Riyashi, continuation of the open confrontation between the “current” and the “forces” in all circles, starting from the Matn district, which is considered a fertile ground for battle. Focusing on the Catholic seat means, in practice, withholding the votes of the movement from the other candidates and leaving them to manage their crops.
Many questions are asked that do not find an answer. If the leadership of the movement is interested in the success of all its candidates, why did it adopt three “party” nominations from the hawks of the movement in the Metn? While I committed myself to the candidacy of one party in Batroun, Gibran Bassil, Nada Al-Batsani in Kesrouan, and Alain Aoun in Baabda, and announced the candidacy of Bou Saab, Kanaan and Maalouf, at a time when those who knew about the elections considered the battle of the “forces” to be a winner and Riachi’s seat guaranteed.
The interpretations of the concept of the step contradict, but the statistics of election experts confirm that the movement has only winners, and it is difficult and impossible for the movement to win a third seat in a constituency that will witness the mother of electoral battles and settling accounts between the “current” and the “forces.”
Matters will be open in the experts’ reading of several scenarios, especially that the “forces” are waging the battle for the Catholic seat and will not retreat from it at all costs, while the current is fragmented and rumours are ravaged by it. To cast votes and vote for him, which confused his colleagues on the list, especially that the deputies of Al-Matn have a special significance. Representative Ibrahim Kanaan leads the statistics and is one of the most prominent legal and “legislators” of the current in the House of Representatives, and Abu Saab has his political and popular status.
Al-Riyashi nominated to shuffle the cards, and transformed the course of the battle, so that it was impossible for the current to secure three harvests, but the matter could have been remedied in the current if a proper management of the electoral battle had been put in place, so that the guaranteed Maronite seats and the seat of an Orthodox would not be subjected to “scraping” on the movement’s list.
Nevertheless, those who are familiar with the details of the elections talk about available options to get out of the current list’s impasse before the lists are officially registered on April 4, including, for example, the Maronite battle of the disabled for Canaan and the Orthodox, unless the only option adopted for incomprehensible reasons is to let things take the form of a deadly battle between colleagues in The list, but this procedure will have catastrophic repercussions, because, according to those who know, it will lead to the dispersal of the block of votes and launch a battle to cancel within the orange list and “interrupt” the votes.