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It is correct to define the scene of President Michel Aoun’s exit from the republican palace as historical. He entered six years ago with the embrace of my people and “a password” and left after the upheavals, the “revolution”, the collapses and crises of a popular boom that none of the leaders of the independence state had preceded .
Michel Aoun did not retire. The picture looked as if the presidency was with him like a station, after which he continued to quarrel with him. In the coming months and years, Aoun will not be behind the scenes of political life, but he will remain present, argumentative, some applauding him, others attacking him.
It did not end with the end of the pact. He “fled the Baabda Palace and came back to live in people’s hearts,” states the song, which was released by the Free Patriotic Movement a few days ago, and has become a trend among them in their statements and comments on social media. This is how his lovers see him, the “leader” who has come out of the people, and he returns to the people.
The president has returned to the “general”, with what the word means for the “current” of revolution and battles, stubbornness and quarrel. It is therefore as if he had chosen to die on the stage of political life, not on the edge of him. And here he spends the last day of his tenure in his house in Rabieh, relying on the embrace of the people and on a parliamentary bloc that will remain with him influential on the Lebanese scene, in which he has been a leading actor for more than forty years.
The “nightmare” it represents for many is not over. The political ram tours with the Aoun movement will continue in a homeland that walks a field of political, financial, economic and social mines.
It is certain that Aoun cannot be blamed for the consequences of previous alliances, but it is also certain that he inherited the heavy legacy. The crisis has been bogged down for years and spawned crisis during his reign. Some say Aoun was strategically successful and failed on small issues. He thought that it would be enough for him to resolve the big issues, it seemed that the internal contradictions and their political and sectarian legacies required attention to the small issues, as well as to address the big issues.
Some say that Aoun exposed all the flaws of the Lebanese system with his display, restoring the position of the first presidency, its symbolism and its role, and that the description of political life is divided between before and after the presidency of Aoun.
In any case, Michel Aoun is not finished. And his impact on political life will last more than a term … and his impact will last more than a few years.
