Lebanon is about to enter the constitutional deadline to elect a new president of the republic, in accordance to short article 73 of the constitution, which presents that the Parliament satisfies at the invitation of its president, at the very least one particular thirty day period ahead of the expiry of the mandate, or two months at the optimum. Apart from for what unfold by the head of the Socialist Progressive Get together, Walid Jumblatt, about the look for for a new Elias Sarkis to get about the presidency following President Aoun, and the dialogue interrupted just after the Clemenceau assembly thanks to lack of solutions from Hezbollah, a silence puzzled looms over everything relevant to the anticipated right. Nobody experienced the ethical courage to express their decision to operate. Similarly, the common rule that sights presidential elections as a Christian affair, which calls for Christians to present their candidate or candidates to the Lebanese people soon after a Christian retreat, is what helps make purely Christian delicacies out of political blocks unaffected. to nominate his own candidate and not using responsibility for the impending election. . Extra to this is the lack of ability of the legislator to have out his role: it is ample to invite the President of Parliament to a session for the election of the President of the Republic to start off a system governed by the continuation of numerous classes in accordance to the Constitution until finally the end of the constitutional term and up to the expiry of the mandate if the Council is not invited.
The hopes put in the arrival of a president who signifies a path to save the region, restore the state and launch establishments do not appear to be encouraging in the light of the current knowledge, if not with the abilities of a able person. It also seems that those people worried with eligibility to run less than the applicable “golden rule” are continue to in the cycle of rivalry involving candidates on the exact same group, a custom that accompanies each individual presidential election, as the very same rule presupposes consensus and consensus. right before the application. But in any scenario, and till the presidential candidacy gets to be a national affair that affects all Lebanese, the tacit discussion on the presidential election will be no different from the controversy that accompanied the parliamentary elections, restoring the point out or continuing to collapse.
For a presidential candidate in Lebanon to question the sovereign point out that retains the special choice of war and peace, retain borders with its reputable forces and battle corruption, he is connected to a person of the Western embassies or the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and he could be accused of collaborating with the Israeli enemy. As for the applicant to look at the addition of Lebanon to the regional axes, the loosening of borders, the justification of uncontrolled weapons, the interruption of the formation of authority and the theft of public money below the slogan of the Charter and the rights of sects , he is a quintessential citizen that the enemy fears, and there is very little incorrect with staying previously mentioned the law that has not been established for related ones. Sure, in Lebanon, the demand for countrywide sovereignty, the institution of a just point out and equal options for citizens is an accusation of violation of the Charter and the requirements of national reconciliation and consensual democracy. These improvements, which the Lebanese entered their constitutional lexicon and which shortly moved out of Lebanon, have come to be a prepared-built recipe for disrupting political everyday living if Tehran’s allies want it and where ever they want.
Those encompassing the President of the Republic declare that he will leave the presidential home at the finish of his term, but the president at the similar time claims that the interim authorities is unable to receive the powers of the president. What powers are those that concern the president and does he not agree to entrust them to the Council of Ministers? The truth is that what Lebanon has achieved is because of to the president’s transgression of the powers entrusted to him and not to its use below the constitution, and he confirms this today by refusing to entrust his powers to the Council of Ministers immediately after the expiry of the time period. So, can any prime minister or any Lebanese use these powers to rule Lebanon in a way worse than we know now? There is a unique impossibility of establishing a new hell with the record velocity with which hell has been completed that President Aoun introduced in chilly blood.
The president’s decision not to hand above power to the provisional government indicates only a single point: circumventing the constitution, transferring the wrestle for electricity from in the suspended constitutional institutions and maturing the conditions for a coup versus the political program afterwards. obtaining reworked the presidential palace into an artificial mass that the Lebanese deal with on its walls and guiding which a rapist will take refuge.
The Lebanese have been now familiar with this scene, and its very first edition dates back to 1988 with Normal Aoun himself, who led a navy govt, opposite to the structure, whose mission was to protected the election of a president. At that time, the presidential palace turned into a system for waging wars of abolition and liberation in all instructions amid an synthetic populism that brought the military into successive armed service adventures and paved the way for the Syrian profession of the presidential palace. and the Ministry of National Protection immediately after Typical Aoun’s insistence on perpetuating the division in the institutions, irrespective of the election of a president of the republic under Arab and international patronage.
Nowadays the Lebanese were being on the verge of restoring the scene of the calendar year 1988, and recalling the disaster of the transfer of electric power at that time and the repercussions of the Syrian army entry into Lebanon, which paved the way for political and nationwide laying on of hands until eventually to 2005, they surprise how Standard Aoun will arrive out of Baabda this time and what are the expenses incurred by the Jamahiriya The new Lebanese and who will capture him once more, Damascus or Tehran?
Brigadier Normal Khaled Hamadeh – Major General
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