If you want to be a committed partisan, then the matter requires, in many cases, that you see the mistake and remain silent regarding it, and even defend it at times. It may happen, for example, that Gebran Bassil and Walid Jumblatt sit together while a supporter of the first attacks the second on social media. When the adults meet, the young ones go with a “currency difference”. There are those who accept it for themselves.
Basil held a series of meetings away from the limelight in the recent period. He concealed it as well as its content, so that deputies in the “current” knew regarding these meetings from the media, knowing that it is customary for Basil to absent his deputies from what he is doing, so he moves without coordination and does not inform them of the results of the meetings, even the meetings of the “strong Lebanon” bloc It almost becomes superfluous at this point. Representatives sometimes turn into semi-partisans, as if they are fighting on the front while their leader is sitting with the “enemy”.
As for the goals of Bassil’s movement, insiders say that it does not serve the interest of a specific presidential candidate, even if the opposite is leaked.
And the sources say that the candidate of the head of the “current”, until today, is Bassil himself, and he will play this card until the end, even if he says otherwise in the media, and if his movement suggests otherwise. Basil’s plan also includes surrounding Patriarch Mar Beshara Boutros Al-Rahi, who recently lowered his ceiling, following he was severely attacking the head of the “strong Lebanon” bloc in his private sessions.
Sources in this context speak of the Vatican’s dissatisfaction, expressed by a papal nuncio who met the shepherd recently outside Lebanon, with the shepherd’s performance and positions, especially since he did not abide by the advice of the Vatican addressed to him.
All of the above leads us to say that the presidential vacancy will not end soon. Rather, we will enter, starting at the beginning of the year, in a “wave” of initiatives that Bassil will inaugurate without producing a settlement. In the near future, Hezbollah will not abandon Suleiman Franjieh, and Basil will not agree to support the latter. Your place is presidential, but the dollar does not fluctuate in price, and we will end the year with fifty thousand for one dollar. And in this, there is no one who initiates, nor who finds a solution… nor those who grieve.
Dany Haddad – mtv