Source: principal
On the fourth day of the first month of the year, the fifth crisis, the scene began to recede and expand, like the tides, under the influence of the change in air temperature and the blowing of cold and warm winds. On the one hand, the majority of Lebanese expatriates are preparing to leave where they came from, after spending New Year’s Eve throughout their country, where it is impossible for the Lebanese citizen to live for a few days on his salary, whether it is low, high or medium.
Another section deals with “banking” operations, which have become within the new standards in force, neither fattening nor enriching by starvation, while the banks have opened their doors in the manner of the end of the last two months, erecting barriers with locks and safeguards between employees and those in need of services, with no signs of improvement in performance emerging. Or the initiative to find one or more partial or global solutions to the crisis of confidence, against the background of the money loss of depositors in banks and their branches .
Political sources expected the essentially monotonous political movement to resume early next week after many officials and ministers returned from overseas after spending their holidays there, as if the country was fine, and not suffering from crises and tragedies of all kinds, but they ruled out the occurrence of important changes or shifts in the general political landscape, in the light of the flagrant inability of all forces and leaders, of any party to which they belong, to take any initiative or move, breaking the stalemate, and put an end to political entrenchment with the presidential election dossier, among the various political parties, towards the first election of a new president for the republic, and take the rest of the necessary steps to resolve the political crisis. The difficult economic situation that Lebanon is currently facing.
The sources have considered that the movement of greetings on the occasion of Christmas and the New Year is a regular movement, and between Lebanese customs and traditions among the various components of the Lebanese people Beshara Al-Rai a Bkerke, which falls within these habits and for a matter of decency, and does not transgress them, considering that what happened during it did not go beyond public conversations, and the research did not touch on any of the important issues and files disputed between the Maronite Patriarch and the party, and each party has remained on its positions and orientations, and its divergent view of these files, especially the file of the presidential elections.
The sources exclude that the political movement would tend to convene a Council of Ministers soon, to approve the electricity loan that the head of the Free Patriotic Movement, deputy Gebran Bassil, is working to pass, in any case, given the impending private material benefits and earnings, as happened previously with billions of dollars of advances being spent in the pockets of the beneficiaries, without providing a minimum supply of electricity. Instead, the electricity sector was completely destroyed by the head of the Free Patriotic Movement and the deputy ministers appointed by him to maintain his hegemony over the aforementioned sector and control its material and moral capacities, without responsibility or supervision.
The sources stressed that summoning Prime Minister Najib Mikati to a cabinet session is not as swift as the Free Patriotic Movement is promoting, but will be preceded by extensive contacts with various parts of the government to solicit their views. , explain the positive and necessary reasons for holding the session and guarantee the acceptable limit for consensus around it, so that its effects and the desired results are given to the general national interest and not to the advantage of one party at the expense of the other parties.
However, the sources have corrected stating that feeding the political climate by the Free Patriotic Movement, to intimidate the interruption of the session, as happened in the previous session, will neither advance nor delay the issue, because the Prime Minister, who takes into account the urgent need to hold a cabinet session, will take into account the positions of all parties, before inviting the government to convene, to ensure its convening, to avoid any unknown blow-up and to avoid negative repercussions for disruption of the its convocation by any party.
And if the judiciary is still studying difficult options, to return to the courts deserted for months, the political authorities are still lost between dialogue or no dialogue, and between paper election or consensual election of a new president of the republic.
Tomorrow, on the impact of the renewed debate between the Free Patriotic Movement, through the current deputy and former minister Nada Al-Bustani, and the circles of the Grand Serail, against the background of the electricity loan and the ten-hour promises, vanished, and are become just an hour, which do not come regularly, but on a discretionary basis.. Tomorrow, on the impact of this debate:
1- The Constitutional Council issues its decision or decisions regarding the appeal presented by the reforming deputies to the 2022 budget, which has become the twelve-year rule for spending pending the 2023 budget.
2- The bomb detonated by the head of the Public Procurement Authority, Jean Al-Alia, demanding that the Ministry of Energy be subjected to criminal control, after the waste of public money and the losses suffered by the sector, following the work of energy ministers over the last ten years.
3- In the first parliamentary session this month, President Nabih Berri convened the joint committees for a session tomorrow to follow up the study of the capital control bill.
A representative source believed that the lack of delay in holding the session indicates the need for a breach in this dossier, given international demand for its completion as part of a basket of reforms that reopen the door to working with the International Monetary Fund.
4- At the government level, the question of convening a cabinet session is still on the table of interests, as President Najib Mikati is conducting the necessary contacts, given that the decree on electricity lending needs the cabinet, with the ministers of the Movement patriotic free who continue to oppose its holding, with Hezbollah’s request that the circumstances not repeat The first session, meaning that it is not encouraged to hold it without the approval of Representative Gebran Bassil.
Overall, informed political sources have clarified to Al-Liwaa that the local arena is open to presidential initiatives launched by both individual deputies and parliamentary blocs, and indicate that they precede next week’s Presidential election session, pointing out that some of them constitute an integrated basket and require dialogue, while others include new names nominated for the presidency.
These sources have considered that some of these initiatives can be called attempts to create the required breach, knowing that political tensions persist, and this does not mean that the initiatives replace the constitutional procedure represented in the sessions to elect the President of the Republic, calling on hold of its details.
He said that a number of deputies had announced the launch of an initiative in the presidential elections, such as the representative Gebran Bassil, and it is understood in this regard that Bassil could try to adopt the nomination of some names.
A concerned minister told Al-Liwaa that whatever the first presidential sessions resume, they will return as they are governed by Christian confusion and an inability to meet or even agree, with talks of a “B” and possibly “C” plan for the “Lebanese Forces” team and the Free Patriotic Movement team.
