Mikati, who has come to feel that his government, whose files are haunted by failure, is now in the grips of a deadlock, and that he is bound by his obligations abroad and unable to resign, embarrassing him with the Americans and the French, especially as he pledged not to create a vacuum in the absence of an alternative plan. At the same time, he, like the rest of his allies in the composition, does not want to match the President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, in administrative and financial steps, accusing Aoun of aiming to fortify his popular position in preparation for the elections. Therefore, Mikati continues to protect the governor of the Banque du Liban, and he acts on the assumption that what the latter achieves in reducing the price of the dollar is the “single achievement” of the government, although it is a fictitious achievement that contains a condemnation of the bank, and of the government that was late in controlling the indolent financial market, especially since it is known that the ruler is one of the Runs the business of money changers who manipulate currency.
Therefore, Mikati deals with the mounting pressure of the investigation file with Salameh as aiming to blow up the government. It proceeds from the fact that the dismissal of Salameh, under the pressure of judicial prosecution, is rejected by Berri, Prime Minister Saad Hariri, former MP Walid Jumblatt, Maronite Patriarch Bechara Al-Rahi and others, and that these threaten to overthrow the government if any judicial step is taken that threatens Salama, “the only one capable of preventing the great collapse!” Therefore, all of them, along with the Prime Minister, deal with the judicial steps taken by Judges Ghada Aoun and Jean Tannous as implementing a decision that President Aoun and Representative Gibran Bassil are behind. This prompted the prime minister to inform the Minister of Interior, the State Security Service and the rest of the security services that they would not implement any judicial warrant before returning to him directly. He also informed the discriminatory public prosecutor, Judge Ghassan Oweidat, that he rejected any allegation once morest Salameh.
The Prime Minister accuses President Aoun and Bassil of aiming to blow up the government in order to overthrow it, and thus disrupt the parliamentary elections. According to the Prime Minister’s visitors, “Aoun knows that these steps lead to a political escalation, and the problem with the Internal Security Forces may take a sectarian dimension that threatens general stability.”
Meanwhile, Salama, despite all the persecutions, is still behaving like the “strongest man” in the republic. He succeeded in forcing Mikati to gather the heads of Imad Othman and Tony Saliba on one “pillow”, and made the two arch-rivals collude to hide the truth of what happened the day before yesterday, when the security forces objected to the State Security Agency patrol, which was tasked with bringing Salama to the investigation. The powerful ruler, who is protected by his wife and secret from panthers, also succeeded in reviving the Future Movement, which is supposed to be in a state of retirement, and prompted it to issue two statements in less than 24 hours aimed at the President of the Republic and his political current.
Major General Othman, whose members prevented State Security agents from bringing Salama, resorted the day before yesterday to the Prime Minister to obtain reassurances, especially following he smelled that Judge Ghada Aoun was in the process of prosecuting him (which is what happened yesterday, as she referred him before the first investigative judge in Mount Lebanon Nicolas Mansour, who has scheduled a hearing next week following being notified through the Ministry of Interior). After the meeting, Othman contacted the director of the State Security Apparatus, Major General Saliba, who informed him that what was reported regarding the objection of State Security agents was “inaccurate.” Immediately, the Public Relations Division of the Internal Security Forces denied the security forces’ objection to state security forces and prevented them from implementing a judicial decision, followed by a statement by the General Directorate of State Security, claiming that what was published was “inaccurate” and affirmed “the security directorates’ keenness on coordination.” Noting that a colonel in the State Security and other members confirmed in the content of their testimony, in an official report before Judge Aoun, that the security forces objected to them and threatened that a confrontation would take place if they did not leave. This prompted Aoun to issue a statement in which she referred to “the collusion of the security forces to prevent the implementation of a summons issued by a judge (…) knowing that these facts, and no matter how much they try to distort and mislead, are proven by official records and photos that prove beyond any doubt, that The colonel in charge of implementation was threatened that if he tried to enter to get Mr. Salama, there would be confrontation and blood.” She put what happened “in the name of the Supreme Judicial Council and the first judge, His Excellency the President of the Republic”, and “I have full confidence that you will not accept that judicial decisions are trampled upon”, winking at the channel of the State Security Agency, which let it down following its members withdrew at the request of the leadership of the service before they informed it of their decision. pulling out.
The future mobilizes in defense of Othman and the security services collude once morest the judiciary
With the Future Movement mobilized to defend Major General Othman, the head of the Future Parliamentary Bloc, Bahia Hariri, called the Prime Minister, who confirmed his “position rejecting the actions of Judge Aoun, and that Othman performed all his duties and was in full coordination with him and the Minister of Interior, and praised Othman’s morality and good performance,” Mikati said. According to Hariri, “the allegation is pure slander and has nothing to do with the truth,” and that he “will personally follow up this issue with the Minister of Justice and the Public Prosecutor of the Discrimination to stop this persistence in attacking state institutions, its prestige and the dignity of those in charge of it.”
In addition, the Information Office of the Presidency of the Republic indicated that “for the second day in a row, the Future Movement continues to spread lies and misrepresentations regarding the alleged role of the President of the Republic in interfering in the work of the judiciary regarding the status of the Governor of the Banque du Liban.” He stressed that the President of the Republic “is not concerned with any action taken by the judiciary or the competent security services. Consequently, the allegations of the Future Movement have retaliatory backgrounds that aim to impart an incendiary character to the position of the Presidency of the Republic and the person of the president, and this is clear through the phrases used in the statements issued by this movement and the declared positions of its officials.
