Al-Rahi holds the “pride of politicians” responsible for obstructing the election of the Lebanese president
The head of the “Free Patriotic Movement,” Lebanese MP Gebran Bassil, is still sending messages to “Hezbollah” that he is not isolated. As Al-Sharq Al-Awsat learned that he recently held two meetings with the head of the “Marada Movement,” former minister Suleiman Franjieh, and the caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, at a mutual friend’s.
Likewise, Bassil’s opening up to the head of the “Progressive Socialist Party” Walid Jumblatt did not cause, as a prominent political source told Asharq Al-Awsat, anxiety among the party leadership, which is well aware that its limits in the end remain limited to breaking the ice and ending the rift between them, and it will not The matter is developing towards opening a new page of cooperation.
In this context, the same source revealed that Bassil decided to expand the range of his contacts with unconditional openness to his opponents, which came immediately following the communication between him and Hezbollah was cut off, and he did not move for him before by changing his political discourse, which culminated in attacking them, until following If his relationship with the “party” suffers a setback, he can only overcome it through his initiative to contact his ally. He pointed out that Bassil did not hesitate to respond to a mutual friend’s request, by accepting his invitation to have lunch at his table with Mikati, and later to meet Franjieh.
In addition, the Maronite Patriarch Beshara Al-Rai said during the Christmas Mass in Bkerke that “pride prevents politicians from meeting and dialogue in order to get out of the crisis of electing a president, while the groaning of the hungry and oppressed people does not reach the ears of their hearts and consciences,” asking: “Where are they from the face of mercy?” Who was revealed to us at Christmas?”
Al-Rahi added, “Let them stop obstructing the election of a president so that normal life can return to constitutional institutions, and the country can get out of its deadly economic and financial crises, and the people from their poverty, deprivation, and oppression.”
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