(Haitham Al-Moussawi)
It was noted that Hashemite and a number of those affiliated with the electoral machine of the Future Movement, including Muhammad al-Sammak, Amin al-Kurdi and Muhammad Yamout, are working for candidate Nabil Badr, while sources confirmed to “Al-Akhbar” that the “Hashemite Movement” is “directly ordered by Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who wants to strike The list supported by Siniora.”
In the meantime, security sources expressed their fear that the capital would witness, from today until the date of the elections, movements of the Future Movement supporters in the capital to prevent any electoral activity and close the capital” in the face of the elections “in compliance with Sheikh Saad’s decision.” A few days ago, some of them had carried out a “conquest” targeting an electoral tent for the “Beirut Resist” group on the Jdeideh road, and they prevented the electoral activity of “citizens of a country.” Candidates, including Mahmoud al-Jamal, were also prevented from conducting electoral tours in separate areas of the capital. This was accompanied by threats on social media.
Security sources fear movement of supporters of the movement on polling day
This atmosphere provoked a “panic” in the security services from the chaos, especially in the poor neighborhoods such as Sabra, Shatila, Tariq Al-Jadida, Ard Jalloul and Qasqas, and from the possibility of transforming the threat into actions against the polling stations to make the “polling day” an occasion to “show allegiance to Saad Hariri.”
In parallel, Siniora was quoted as saying a few days ago in an election meeting, “We are free to choose to run and participate in the elections, and before we announced our participation in the elections, we informed them about it, and it did not appear that anyone had a problem. However, what happened later is completely different, and we are facing many difficulties and threats.”