Next week, President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, is scheduled to continue the contacts and consultations initiated by security in order to elicit the opinions of the parliamentary blocs on the dialogue he intends to call in Baabda.
In this context, Al-Diyar reported that the President of the Republic allocated the next Tuesday and Wednesday to meet with a number of heads of blocs, and that the timetable for these blocs has begun to be prepared in light of the contacts made by the Presidency of the Republic for this purpose.
Baabda sources told Al-Diyar that President Aoun this time adopted another mechanism that requires that he hold consultations with the Speaker of Parliament, the government and heads of parliamentary blocs on dialogue and the three topics he presented: the defense strategy, the expanded administrative and financial decentralization, and the plan for financial and economic recovery.
She indicated that the President of the Republic is keen, through these contacts and meetings, to elicit the opinions of the heads of the parliamentary blocs before setting the date for the dialogue, which is supposed to take place before the end of this month.
She added that the schedule of the President’s meetings next Tuesday and Wednesday is expected to include leaders and heads of parliamentary blocs: Loyalty to the Resistance, the Democratic Gathering, Marada, Prince Talal Arslan, the consultative meeting, the Armenian Parliament bloc, and the Strong Lebanon bloc.
And “electronic news” wrote: “The country has entered the stage of a permanent, inconclusive conflict whose title is confronting Aoun – Berri, while Hezbollah has been watching the actions of its allies, waiting for the moment of decisiveness that has not yet come, especially since the Vienna nuclear negotiations are still facing some obstacles.”
Consequently, the Ain al-Tineh-Baabda conflict will continue and there is no prospect of resolving it until the end of the covenant, while this atmosphere affects the country with everything and whoever is in it and pays a painful price as a result of all these conflicts. The question is: What if the crisis escalates between the first and second presidency? This is regardless of Berri’s approval of Aoun’s invitation to the national dialogue and to sit side by side, just to say that the Speaker of the Council does not stand as a stumbling block in the face of any inclusive dialogue that would lead to rapprochement, not division.
And Al-Nahar wrote: The political climate is tending towards more polarization, in light of the diminishing opportunity for political forces and parliamentary blocs to respond to the move initiated by the Covenant, seeking to organize a national dialogue table at a time when many positions and assessments converge on looking at it as a wrong timing and completely different from its logical circumstance. . The available data regarding this move rule out that the meetings that the President of the Republic intends to hold with the heads of the parliamentary blocs this coming week will succeed in removing reservations and doubts regarding holding a dialogue table at this time, five months away from the parliamentary elections and under the auspices of a president who has only ten months left in office, not to mention the circumstances. The country is going through, which was supposed to hold a national dialogue for several years and not its timing according to the special circumstances pressing the covenant on what this attempt indicates.
In any case, following the contact that took place between Aoun and President Saad Hariri, and then Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s station in Baabda on Friday, it was reported that Aoun will meet at the beginning of the week with the head of the “Marada” movement, Suleiman Franjieh, and then the head of the “Progressive Socialist Party” Walid Jumblatt to discuss with them his invitation. for dialogue. At a time when Marada has not yet determined its position, socialist positions have emerged that do not suggest positives in this regard, most notably by Representative Hadi Abu al-Hassan, who confirmed the president’s contact with party leader Walid Jumblatt. Today, it is a simulation of the pain of the Lebanese, and it is not the time today to discuss amending the political system in Lebanon.” On the socialist’s position on dialogue, he said: “Dialogue for the sake of dialogue is of no value, and if the goal is to float the covenant, then “it is not our job to polish someone’s image or save someone.”
The official in charge of foreign relations in the “Lebanese Forces”, former Minister Richard Kouyoumjian, also revealed that “the forces will boycott the national dialogue called for by President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun.” Parliamentary elections doors.
A former government reference told Asharq Al-Awsat that Aoun was no longer the qualified judge to sponsor dialogue following he sided with the Hezbollah faction, and this made him lose his conciliatory role among the Lebanese, in addition to the fact that those who spent 5 years and 3 months in the first presidency were reinstated during them. The country is backwards. In the remainder of his presidential term, it has become impossible for him to seize the initiative to compensate for his failure to fulfill the obligations he undertook following his election as President of the Republic.
As for the positions of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Walid Jumblatt of the Progressive Socialist Party, Asharq Al-Awsat learned from prominent political sources that the former, who is the “spiritual father” of the dialogue that was launched at his invitation in April 2006, will participate in it and will leave Aoun is free to move, and he is content to make a speech at the beginning of the dialogue session, but he will not remain idly by regarding what was mentioned on the agenda set by Aoun, specifically regarding the approval of expanded fiscal decentralization. The Speaker of the Council is preparing to use all his “political weapon” in confronting this provision that contradicts the Taif Agreement, and which, in the event of its adoption, fears that it will take the country to another place in harmony with the rising voices calling for the adoption of the federal system. Political sources expect that the dialogue session will witness a political clash in the event that it is decided to propose financial decentralization, which Berri will deal with as a transgression of red lines, while it has not yet been decided whether Jumblatt will participate personally, or that his son Taymour, head of the Democratic Gathering, will represent him.
Asharq Al-Awsat learned that Aoun contacted Jumblatt, who, for health reasons, asked to give him some time until he recovers to participate in the individual meetings that Aoun holds in preparation for the dialogue conference, although Jumblatt, who did not hesitate to participate in previous dialogues, called for the cabinet to convene on Dialogue is to reactivate government action, because there is no point in disrupting, while crises are piling up and have no solutions.
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