central – President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, did not take a decision setting the deadline for holding binding parliamentary consultations to nominate the president-designate to form the new government.
He confirmed today that the democratic process will continue in the coming days, through parliamentary consultations, to assign a person to form the new government, which is supposed to gain the confidence of Parliament and begin work on urgent issues. But he did not hit any date.
According to the data, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, who remains the most likely to head the government, informed Aoun that he would not return to the Grand Serail without a prior understanding of passing three files at the end of the term and before the new term of the next president. Mikati, according to those close to him, is afraid of the presidential vacuum and does not want to run “bankruptcy.” For this reason, he asked for a commitment to approving reforms and a recovery plan to launch the wheel of understanding with the International Monetary Fund, and to put the electricity plan on the implementation track. and effort, and therefore the ball is now in the court of the First Presidency.
Visitors to Baabda do not expect, in this context, to call for consultations soon, pointing to the difficulty in choosing a leading Sunni figure to be tasked with forming a government, especially since President Najib Mikati has not yet made his choice on the matter, and is still reluctant to take up this task once more in light of the results that resulted. The parliamentary elections constituted a dispersal of the Sunni voice that is supposed to have the first say in the assignment process, and the discrepancies reflected in the parliamentary elections.
Regarding the consultations that the Baabda Palace is conducting as a prelude to the assignment and to facilitate the authoring process, these visitors convey the existence of a great division over the name of President Mikati, and perhaps this is what motivates him to wait. The forces, the battalions, the Changers and the Free Patriotic Movement do not want Miqati, while Hezbollah, Amal, the Marada, and Akkar’s representatives support him.
As for the form of the new government, they point out that the consultations that were conducted showed a great division on the issue. The parties want a political government once morest the background of their fear of reaching a vacuum in the first presidency, while the opposition, with the introduction of a government of technicians and specialists, is able to advance the country.