“Al-Diyar” information indicates that “the President of the Republic will not call for consultations this week, as he wants to ensure that the mandate to form a new government will lead, not that attempts continue for months without leading to a result, so his term ends without completing the formation process, especially since the current atmosphere confirms We are heading to assign without authorship,” noting that “Mikati is still undisputedly the most fortunate candidate in the absence of any serious candidacies in his face and any personality capable of competing with him with the votes he will get because the forces that will not name Mikati cannot agree on a single candidate.” It seems clear that all Bassil’s efforts to put forward new names to succeed Mikati failed, and concerned sources suggested that Aoun would call for consultations, as a maximum, within a week, due to the absence of justifications that prevented that.
The Major General wrote: This parliamentary slowdown in completing the file of the parliamentary committees has led to delaying the consultations date until next week, unless data emerge that hasten the matter, knowing that no candidate names have emerged so far, and the parliamentary blocs will hold meetings to decide the matter.
The same sources considered that the discussion revolves around the votes obtained by the person entrusted with heading the government in light of the inability to agree on a name and the possibility of other blocs resorting to the secretariats of the designation or otherwise, noting that the government scene is supposed to crystallize following the Friday session.
Political sources expect that President Aoun will begin the binding parliamentary consultations to nominate a new prime minister next week, following he wasted this week in vain, under the pretext of waiting for the new blocs of parliamentarians, although they are known, and following exhausting attempts to summon potential candidates for prime minister, from abroad and inside, to blackmail the president. Najib Mikati, who leads all candidates for prime minister.
The sources reveal that Basil’s attempts and tricks, to brandish unknown or well-known personalities to head the new government, regardless of the agreement with his ally Hezbollah, and faced rejection and negative reactions from his opponents as well, made Mikati ahead of all those who were proposed by Basil secretly and publicly, and required Fatah Channels of communication to exchange Mikati over the form and composition of the future government and to put forward the usual demands and conditions that constitute factors obstructing and slowing down the formation process.
The sources indicated that the attempt of the head of the Free Patriotic Movement, Representative Gibran, to threaten to name the financial and economic expert, Saleh Al-Nusli, to confront Mikati, failed because Bassil was not able to secure the ingredients for his access to the prime minister’s office alone and without providing the support of a sufficient number of MPs to support him, but because Nsouli, who has a project Integrated to resolve the financial and economic crisis within six months, and insists on forming a government of a homogeneous specialized work team chosen by him, and rejects politicians’ interference in its program and tasks, did not meet the response required for his project to engage in this task, so he left Lebanon following a five-day visit, during which he toured senior Politicians and some religious references, while intimidation regarding the nomination of other personalities was met by the political center in general, which left Mikati as the only candidate in the face of Basil’s endless and provocative ambitions.
A well-informed source revealed that the main contract lies in President Mikati’s refusal, along with significant parliamentary blocs, for the Ministry of Energy to remain part of the Free Patriotic Movement’s share, as demanded by Representative Basil.
And Al-Nahar wrote: On the subject of binding parliamentary consultations to assign the new prime minister, the delay in setting its date on various pretexts began to provoke reactions that reflect mounting doubts regarding the goals of this delay. In this context, the head of the Lebanese Kataeb Party, MP Sami Gemayel, stressed yesterday that “the binding parliamentary consultations are one of the most important entitlements at this stage,” noting that “the President of the Republic should call for it as soon as possible so that the process of forming a government can start quickly.” Every day of procrastination that passes, Lebanon drains the rest of its reserves, and the Governor of the Banque du Liban spends daily from this reserve in order to pump foreign currency liquidity into the market to maintain the current exchange rate.
