Well-informed Lebanese sources told Asharq Al-Awsat that the head of the Free Patriotic Movement, Gebran Bassil, is forced to reformulate his movement’s understanding with Hezbollah with a new political flavor.
The sources said: “It is necessary to pause, in the course of assessing the relationship between (Hezbollah) and (the Free Patriotic Movement), in front of the contact made by the official (Liaison and Coordination Unit) in the party, Wafiq Safa, with both former Lebanese President Michel Aoun and his heir. politician Basil; To congratulate them on behalf of the party’s leadership on the occasion of Christmas and New Year’s, unlike previous occasions when the party used to send a leadership delegation on behalf of its Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah to extend congratulations to his allies.
Asharq Al-Awsat learned that Bassil asked Safa whether the party adheres to supporting the nomination of the head of the “Marada Movement” Suleiman Franjieh, while the “Free Patriotic Movement” refused to support him, and Safa contented himself with referring him to Nasrallah. Because he alone has the answer to his question.
The source adds that President Aoun is currently calling for a reformulation of his understanding with “Hezbollah” with a new political flavor, under the pretext that what is currently in place is no longer suitable to keep pace with the current political stage, otherwise they would not have agreed to form a joint committee entrusted with the task of reviewing it in the interest of developing it and purifying it from impurities. .
In addition, while the Maronite Patriarch Beshara Al-Rai called on the Parliament to stop the “sitcom” of electing a president for the republic. He said that the election of the president “is not carried out by the heresy of prior agreement on it – this is the opposite of our democratic system – but rather by voting associated with consultation and dialogue.”
He added, “We sincerely hope that there will be no one who intends to amputate the head of the republic and disrupt institutions so that Lebanon appears as a failed state.”
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