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came in “Major General”: The caretaker government headed by Najib Mikati operates according to the old saying: “Work for this world as if you will live forever, and work for the herefollowing as if you will die tomorrow.” This was evident from the relentless pursuit to pass the Capital Control Law, which is regarding to get out of the labyrinth of attraction and procrastination into the light, marking the start of deposit recovery in the manner of “giving a little is better than deprivation.”
And while the government unleashed the fight once morest corruption and stormed its corridors, starting with the “beneficial” to the real estate departments, and the service ministries from health to works, and even education, to reduce the number of workers in the public sector, through exchange operations, and stopping employment, it opened the door for the European judiciary to storm the arena Money smuggling and banking and financial corruption by listening to testimonies of bank managers, employees and suspects involved.
Despite the slowdown in contacts or consultations for electing a new president for the republic, Lebanon has received European moral support, which was conveyed by the European Union’s ambassador, Ralph Tarraf, to President Mikati, to improve conditions, including the economic file.
The most prominent of the delays is that of Speaker Nabih Berri’s delay in calling for a new session to elect a new president. Likewise, President Mikati considered that it is advisable not to set a date for a cabinet session before ensuring the presence of the majority of ministers, and not to create a new rift in terms of objecting to holding it for narrow accounts or otherwise. .
He did not know the reason for Berri’s delay, but close associates attributed to him his saying that he gives the opportunity to know the fate of the ongoing movements, whether with regard to the change-making representatives, or the options that the Free Patriotic Movement will resort to in terms of naming a candidate that constitutes the beginning of disengagement from internal issues with Hezbollah.
Berri, according to them, is seeking to seize an opportunity to put the dialogue back on the table, given that there is no room for wasting the opportunity to gather the word of representatives around a candidate they agree on.
However, political sources revealed that Speaker Berri’s delay in calling for the eleventh session to elect a new president for the republic next Thursday, as expected, is due to two reasons, the first of which is the continuation of the prevailing atmosphere of division as it is, between the parties to the authority and their allies on the one hand, and the opposition parties on the one hand. Second, and the absence of any breakthrough that paves the way for breaking the stalemate and moving to the stage of electing the president, lest the session be a tedious repetition of the sessions for electing the president of the previous republic, without any disappointing result, while the Lebanese are waiting for the parliament to perform differently from what happened until today, and to be able to Election of a new President of the Republic as soon as possible.
As for the second and most important reason from the point of view of political sources, it is the anticipation of the choice that the head of the Free Patriotic Movement, Representative Gebran Bassil, will adopt towards the presidential elections, and whether he will nominate someone in the next session to elect the President of the Republic or will he remain committed with his parliamentary bloc to vote in the white paper option, because none Of the two aforementioned options, it will affect the total white papers that will be obtained by the parties to power, specifically the party’s alliance, and will negatively affect the distribution of political forces in the ongoing battle to elect the President of the Republic, at a time when the party avoids reaching this stage, which reflects the party’s inability to manage its alliances. As he always did in such articulated entitlements.
As for the preparations for holding a session of the Council of Ministers dedicated to approving a financial advance for electricity and the plan for the advancement of the entire sector, the sources indicated that there is agreement from the Shiite duo to hold the session, as it is an urgent matter that concerns the people’s essential needs, including electricity, and the quorum for holding it has become secured, while lack of Ensuring that Minister of Energy Walid Fayyad attends the session at the behest of the head of the Free Patriotic Movement, Representative Gebran, and that his signature on decrees related to electricity is not guaranteed, and therefore contacts and efforts are continuing to overcome the remaining obstacles to calling for a cabinet session.
For its part, informed political sources told Al-Liwaa that the political parties will not reveal their presidential cards before obtaining certain data, in other words, that the blocs will not change the status quo in the presidential election scene soon, so that the Free Patriotic Movement may delay announcing its position until If he read a certain development.
These sources pointed out that the blocs are making the necessary contacts, but there is no information regarding the possibility of changing visions overnight. And he understood that the next few hours might give answers regarding the orientation of some of the parties.
With regard to a new session of the Council of Ministers, the desires and options made Miqati not rush to call for the session, following information that Hezbollah was “not enthusiastic” to participate in a new session at present, with the Free Patriotic Movement refusing to participate, and taking into account the general Christian grandfather, according to the information of the Aoun sources. .
The only point on the agenda, if the session is held, will be the electricity loan, which Mikati considers that the Council of Ministers alone is the obligatory passage to settle it within a legal and practical framework.
Mikati stressed that “we should be a coherent hand to save and preserve our country,” noting that “safety is with everyone’s cooperation.”
Regardless of the suspicion of bartering in terms of positions between the Free Patriotic Movement and Hezbollah between leaving the white paper with a decision or individual options for the representatives, and Hezbollah’s lack of enthusiasm for a session without the participation of Christian ministers affiliated with the Free Movement, describes a leader in the “Shiite duo” on the eve of the Lebanon bloc meeting What is strong today is what Basil seeks to market as a kind of theatrics, in “dead time” following entering the presidential election, a long pile.
According to this leader, Basil’s departure from the white paper option removes the party’s “moral obligation not to pass any presidential option without the approval of the movement and its president, Gebran Bassil.”
Those familiar with the party’s atmosphere believe that its assessment is that major international powers want to use the vacuum as a means to blame Hezbollah for the political and economic collapse that Lebanon has reached.
What is important for the party is the continuation of civil peace, amid information regarding plans to lure Hezbollah into the game of barricades and civil strife… In a private meeting with a partisan figure in the national duo, it seemed remarkable that his assertion that the duo’s decision in Lebanon to stave off strife and encircle it in the events of Tayouneh, Shuya and Khaldeh does not mean Any party’s indifference to our ability to respond, but in different ways this time and within the title of preserving civil peace and preventing strife.
