Head of the Democratic Gathering bloc MP Taymur Jumblatt saluted the souls of the martyrs of the Progressive Socialist Party on the anniversary of August 13, stressing that “faithfulness to them is to appreciate all those sacrifices, and to learn from experiences to prevent the country from falling once more in any fighting, and to preserve the achievement of reconciliation.” Patriotism in the mountain and the option of partnership and coexistence and unity.
Jumblatt stressed “the necessity of a serious dialogue between all political components in the country without exception, despite the differences over many of the issues raised and the thorny files,” calling for “a rational approach to all points of contention, and the search for how to converge on what is necessary and urgent to alleviate the suffering of the Lebanese citizens.” Rebuilding the constitutional institutions, starting with the elections for a president of the republic that does not pose a challenge to anyone, and the formation of a government that will carry out the required reforms and advance the national economy.”
MP Jumblatt’s speech came on the sidelines of receptions at Al-Mukhtara Palace for a number of civil, social, spiritual and municipal delegations, who presented him with the suffering of villages, especially with regard to electricity and diesel and their impact on the water cut-off from wells.
In this context, he called on the Beirut and Mount Lebanon Water Corporation “to provide diesel fuel to treat the shortage in the Barouk, Batloun and Deir Dorit water stations, and the sewage plants in Barouk and Spring of Safaa,” assigning the head of the Aley department in the corporation, Engineer Younes Germani Mlaeb, to treat the matter, following a complaint The villages concerned of the matter.
Jumblatt, with a large popular delegation from the families of the town of Bsaba, presented the problem of water and electricity cuts to the town, calling for his support to provide an electric line from the Bisri station that feeds the diffuser of the town, and like him from the town of Ketermaya, the mayor, Yahya Ala El-Din, presented him with the need to connect the electricity to the artesian well in Al-Baraka neighborhood And obtaining approval in this regard, in order to help solve the water crisis in the town. He received a delegation from the family of one of the martyrs of the port, Ghassan Hasrouti, and his hometown, Wadi Al-Deir, to thank him for standing by the family and discussing some of the issues that concern them.
He received a delegation from the Idlib region in Syria with whom they discussed the situation of the Druze in the region, a delegation from the Ahmadiyya family in Sharon discussed the demands of the family’s concerns, and a delegation from the “Al-Burjain Cultural and Social Association” headed by Muhammad al-Shami, requesting sponsorship of the al-Burjain festivals at the end of this month, and a delegation from the Association. Al-Hakim Humanitarian Charity” for sponsoring the “Sixth Joy Festival” in Mazboud from August 27 to next September 4, and from the town of Al-Kahlunieh, Al-Shouf.
