Cabinet table in Lebanon
On the issue of powers between Baabda and Ain al-Tineh, the week was closed, and on an open auction and a legislated bazaar on various forms of auctions and heated problems, the authority opens a new week on the schedule of disruption and wasting time to falsify its futility in producing solutions and implementing the required reforms internally and externally… And between one problem and another, the Council of Ministers faltered over The waiting berth is subject to a signal from the “Shiite duo” giving them the green light to resume their sessions, amid information that the tension that prevailed from the gate of the “Extraordinary Contract Decree” deepened the government wound even more, in connection with what was reported regarding the withdrawal of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri’s dissatisfaction towards the Grand Serail, on the Considering that “Prime Minister Najib Mikati did not hesitate to go along with the President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, and to sign the decree in a form that was provocative to the Speaker of Parliament by setting the agenda for the legislative session.”
But apart from this part, the government scene in its broader form is still stuck at the “node” of the judicial investigator, Judge Tariq Al-Bitar, which the Shiite duo is mortgaging the fate of the Council of Ministers with its dissolution, as a necessary condition for lifting the ban on its convening, “and there has been no change in this position until now.” The duo’s sources also asserted, expressing their reassurance that “the Prime Minister will not call for a cabinet meeting without a Shiite cover.” As for his recent statement from Baabda Palace regarding extending the invitation, they did not see it as more than “wishes tied to a clear bet that the need for The approval of the draft general budget will constitute an entry point to secure the return of the Council of Ministers to the meeting.”
The sources pointed out that the expression “Bhalomen” used by the Prime Minister in expressing his intention to set the date for the cabinet meeting “is a metaphor because basically the draft budget has not yet been completed and it needs at least two weeks to complete it,” stressing at the same time that the prevailing data The belief still prevails that “there is no cabinet session in the near future, especially since the consensus on holding it is still missing and the Shiite duo did not give any indication regarding the possibility of accepting the suspension of the objection to the cabinet meeting to pass the draft budget,” explaining that everything that is rumored from Scenarios in this field, especially in terms of holding a session with the consent of the two, and the Shiite ministers do not attend to approve the budget, but it is “closer to speculation and analysis.”
The sources reiterate that “for the Shiite duo, the reason behind the boycott of government sessions has not yet been resolved (the issue of Judge Al-Bitar and the port investigations), and as long as this issue has not found its way to a solution, government matters will remain as they are, especially since the Prime Minister himself confirmed that He will not take any uncalculated step that threatens his government.”
In the face of the continuation of the government’s stalemate, ministerial circles conveyed information that Mikati, in parallel with intensifying his contacts to overcome obstacles to the resumption of cabinet sessions, tried to convince the President of the Republic of the necessity of issuing exceptional decisions related to public sector employees, but Aoun refused to sign, justifying his refusal that he did not want to acknowledge the continued absence. The Council of Ministers and that its signature will mean that it contributes to prolonging the government vacuum by filling this void by issuing exceptional decisions.