Hayyan Salim Haider
With reference to what is necessary in the appendix
And with a “block” (declining word) of the horizon of electing a president for the country in the absence of “binding” external safeguards, we put forward these conditions – solutions that reduce the momentum of those who have to deviate from the rush to run, and limit the candidacy for those who have nothing to hide or fear or against. Those who are not ashamed of their past, those who do not fear for their future, are condemned by morality … those who realize that the benefits go away. .. if the moral goes.
In short: who fears God.
To this end, and instead of setting specifications for the expected president, and there are many of them right now, and often the specifications remain theoretical and are not subject to implementation after the election, we have seen that we have set simple, practical and numbered conditions that the candidate recognizes and adheres to as candidate and then as president. And in it:
It is not allowed for the candidate to have a nationality other than Lebanese, exclusively, and this is a prerequisite for sovereignty.
– Immediately upon receipt of his responsibilities and after the mandatory declaration of his movable and immovable funds, the President voluntarily lifts the banking secrecy from his and his family’s accounts at all times and up to two years after his departure from the presidency ,
Immediately after assuming his responsibilities, the president voluntarily renounces his immunity which remains only political, that is, exclusively with what is called political action.
All of its money will be in the national currency and remain within Lebanon, and the total value of its wealth may not, at any time, exceed 1% of the gross national product or the value of the annual state budget, whatever the minor.
– Must have paid all financial obligations assumed by him and his family, including taxes and fees, also utility bills, court judgments, etc., i.e. completely free of liability, year after year,
– It must allow the penal control, every year, of the expenses of the presidency and agree to the abolition of the so-called secret fund of the office.
In an effort to address the recurring situation of trying to create a vacancy in every law and to bar the way for Parliament, which is “satisfied with its status”, we propose amending the constitution to state:
– In the event of a vacation or presidential vacation: a not too long period of time is set (and we suggest 45 days) for the election of a president for the country, under penalty of de jure dissolution of parliament, provided that the senior judges assume the presidential powers and ensure, immediately, the correct reconfiguration of the constitutional authorities, according to what is dictated by the constitutions of the countries expert in these matters.
With the above conditions, we ask: is there a candidate?
The legislator, from the days of Greater Lebanon down to the days of Taif, propounded principles for the constitution and wrote the law, and it did not occur to him, like his predecessors among the international professors of lawmakers, that every word, sentence, paragraph, text, idea, validity, etc., that would be written would be subject to misunderstanding, planning, dialogue, controversy, resentment, understanding and interpretation Endless justification to sabotage democratic parliamentary work, along with political, governmental and administrative public work and simply work to ensure a normal life for people.
Constitutional crises in Lebanon have arisen and recurred recently, and do not cease to exacerbate, due to the (non-constructive) ambiguity of some of the constitutional affirmations, so much so that each party, political and otherwise, has gone on to interpret what is convenient for them of its content in one direction (what it thought it was) serves its interest, and the most scandalous is what it calls its “rights”, in a specific political or temporal circumstance.
