Representative Bilal Al-Hushaimi said that “the attack on the head of the Free Patriotic Movement, Gebran Bassil, by the interim prime minister, Najib Mikati, is not an emergency in the political arena, but rather is considered a daily dish on the ‘orange tables”.
He underlined, in a statement to the Kuwaiti newspaper “Al-Anbaa”, that “from the assignment to Mikati to form the government and his inability to respond to Basil’s requests, passing through the bombastic letter from former President Michel Aoun to Parliament , leading to Aoun’s acceptance of the government’s resignation hours before his evacuation of Baabda Palace, all of which are controversial stations.” His son-in-law nurtured him in an effort to secure his place in the political equation during the post-Aouni era.
Al-Hushaimi underlined that “Bassil seeks, under the heading of defense of the powers of the President of the Republic and of the rights of Christians, a political victory by directing his arrows towards the first Sunni position in the country, after his arrows which he shot against Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri rebounded on him, and after his ally abandoned him.” Hezbollah on the issue of presidential elections in favor of its rival, the head of the Marada Movement, Suleiman Franjieh.
And he considered that “Mikati demonstrated during his presence at the helm of the executive authority that he is a decisive decision-maker, and the most attentive to the constitution, the powers of the President of the Republic and the rights of Christians”. underlining that “Basil, who lost his political influence with the end of his uncle’s presidential term, and who realized the impossibility of his access to the Baabda Palace, is trying through his travels abroad and through the his announcement of an initiative regarding the presidential elections, as well as his visits to political and party contacts, the last of which was with the head of the Progressive Socialist Party, Walid Jumblatt, to make the president.
Al-Hushaimi said Bassil believes that “by excluding Franjieh, Representative Michel Moawad and Army Commander Joseph Aoun from the presidential race, he will be able to deliver an orange-fingerprinted president, which will ensure his continued influence.” in the next government equation, and will pave the way for him after six years at the Baabda Palace, and that is what will not happen because all political forces, none excluded, including his ally Hezbollah, are no longer safe for him and for him . “
He stated that “Bassil has left the circle of influence and power, and will not be in the next governing equation as he was during his uncle’s era, and therefore the Lebanese just need to find exits from the tunnel that the Aoun-Basil- The Hezbollah trio drove them in.”
