Najib Mikati made a mistake twice and retreated twice, so he got the yellow card yesterday, and the red card today! His first mistake was that he called for a session of the cabinet with a loose agenda of sixty-five items, which contradicts what he had previously announced that he would not call for a cabinet session unless an urgent or necessary matter occurred. Therefore, yesterday he took a first step, announcing the cancellation of forty of the sixty-five articles. his fault
The second is that he took the risk of calling a session of the Council of Ministers without providing it with the necessary Christian coverage. Neither the Free Patriotic Movement agrees to hold the session, nor do the Lebanese Forces. The final blow came today from Patriarch Al-Rahi, who asked Mikati in his homily to straighten things out, because his government is a caretaker government, not a government of the agenda of political parties and blocs. In light of all these data, nine ministers announced their non-participation in tomorrow’s session, which made it lose the quorum of two-thirds, and what made the session inevitably null, which means a second forced retraction by Miqati. The proverb says: A believer is not stung twice by the same stone. How did al-Najib make a mistake twice?
The failure of Mikati is not related to him alone, but rather he shares it with those behind him, especially Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. The latter was and still is one of the most enthusiastic and eager to hold a cabinet session, in the context of settling the open account between him and the Free Patriotic Movement and its president, Gebran Bassil. But Brie miscalculated this time. The repercussions will not stop here, but Mikati and Berri and those with them will try to hold the Christian team responsible for not making some decisions, especially the living ones. Note that all decisions can be taken within the framework of the roaming decrees. So why create a problem that the country was indispensable for? Meanwhile, the elimination round continues in the World Cup in Qatar, and the second day of the aforementioned round witnessed the exit of Poland in favor of France with a score of 3-1, while all eyes are on the England-Senegal match tonight. So who will have the final word: for Senegal, which wants to qualify for the quarter-finals, as its team did in 2002, or for England, which aspires to repeat its 1966 world title victory?