Beirut – Omar Habanjar and Daoud Ramal
In the second meeting on Friday between President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati, which lasted 15 minutes, the proposed government formation was discussed.
During the meeting, some ideas and suggestions were put forward, noting that another meeting will be held between Presidents Aoun and Mikati soon, to complete the research and consultation.
While Mikati left without making a statement, a well-informed source told Al-Anbaa that “Mikati informed Aoun of his dissatisfaction with the leaks that occurred following the first meeting, and the matter was immediately overcome by emphasizing the friendliness and mutual respect between the two presidents, and then minor adjustments were made to the squad. Submitted by Mikati, and these amendments were put forward by Aoun and included either keeping the distribution as it is in the current caretaker government, or that the rotation should not be limited to a portfolio itself, but rather that it be more comprehensive, with a proposal to expand the government by adding six state ministers of politicians or introducing politicians to the government. The government of twenty-four ministers offered.”
The source explained that “Aoun asked for time to study the mutual ideas, provided that he informs Mikati of his point of view in another meeting, provided that proposals are put forward by the two presidents and ideas are exchanged.”
President Aoun had telephoned Prime Minister Najib Mikati, in the wake of the political and media convulsion that came following Republican Palace sources leaked the government formation that Mikati handed over to Aoun. And they agreed on the meeting that took place on Friday morning, during which President Aoun gave his comments on the formation of it, while Mikati explained the justification for the amendments he made to the caretaker government, and they agreed that Mikati would receive Aoun’s answer, next Monday or Tuesday, according to what was indicated by the “news.” previously.
According to “al-Anbaa” information, the keenness to resolve the government issue, Monday or Tuesday, is linked to the desire of the influential forces to issue government decrees before the blessed Eid al-Adha, specifically Wednesday or Thursday, because Friday is the pause for Eid, and Saturday is the day of Eid.
The follow-up sources noted a new flexibility in President Aoun’s handling of this issue, since following the leak of the first government formation, which was the subject of the President-designate’s discontent, as evidenced by his initiative to contact the latter, bypassing the media and political exchanges that resulted from the leakage process, which means that the Republican Palace departments The dangers of failure to form a government in this specific period, the political risks related to the upcoming presidential elections, and the street risks associated with the huge rise in cell phone and internet tariffs, which threaten to abandon more than half of the Lebanese people from this very vital service at the present time, have begun to fear.
Undoubtedly, the presidential team fully remembers that the October 17, 2019 revolution started from a spark, placing a 6-cent fee on WhatsApp intelligence, which necessitates envisioning what might happen in terms of demonstrations and sit-ins specifically once morest the presidential team, unless there is an effective government that deals with matters.
In addition to the boiling prices of gasoline, diesel, medicine, hospitalization, bread, the collapse of buildings on the heads of their residents, and the Lebanese rush to emigrate by sea despite the sinking of the famous death boat, a new burden has appeared on the pockets of the Lebanese, whose money is lost in bank vaults, represented by doubling the tariffs for cellular or fixed communication, as well as the Internet. , which threatens a large social explosion.
where are we going? A question raised by the Islamic thinker, Dr. Radwan Al-Sayed, on “Voice of Lebanon” radio. He added: Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati says all the time, “We are going to a complete collapse, as if the collapse we are in is not comprehensive.. Therefore, we believe that the matter can no longer be tolerated, in any way, and therefore we should stop dreaming and hoping.” , Which means that all I say is despair, and I can’t say otherwise.
At this time, the excellent Jaafari Mufti Sheikh Ahmed Qabalan considered in his Friday sermon that the fortunes of a new government are almost faltering, and because the world is heading towards an exacerbating crisis with regard to energy and grain, so what is required is to activate the current government quickly, on the way of doing business in the broad sense, and the legal principle says to expand Conducting business is of the magnitude of necessity, and there is no greater necessity than today’s necessities, because the country is falling vertically and the mother of disasters awaits Lebanon.
