“Breaking the Ice: Maronite Patriarch and French President Meet to Discuss Lebanon’s Political Climate”

It was stated in the electronic newspaper “al-Anbaa”:

The Elysee meeting between Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rahi and French President Emmanuel Macron broke the ice that had accumulated since he was taken as a Christian His economic government in the waters and oil of the Mediterranean.

Sources accompanying the Al-Rahi-Macron meeting pointed out, via Al-Anbaa, that “it is true that Al-Rahi succeeded in breaking the ice that formed in the recent period between Macron and the Christian parties objecting to Franjieh, but he was unable to convince the French president to adopt the name of the former minister, Jihad Azour, which the parties agreed upon.” Christianity, and he preferred to remain at the same distance from everyone, calling for the election of a President of the Republic as soon as possible, because prolonging the presidential vacuum will harm Lebanon and the Lebanese, and with this position he returns the ball to the Lebanese court, stressing that the Lebanese leaders must choose between the state and the vacuum. in power”.

At the same time, the sources believed that “the inclusion of Azour’s name on the list of presidential candidates is a positive sign that may help shuffle the cards in the deliberations related to this election, and may push Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri to set a session to elect the president before June 15.”