In order not to confuse anyone, the nomination of the opposition candidate, Michel Moawad, today in Bkerke, is not linked to the resumption of dialogue between the patriarchal establishment and Hezbollah, above all on the question of the first presidency.
The date was set a few days ago, but Bkerki’s position on the elections hasn’t changed.
For Patriarch Al-Rahi, repeated sessions to elect the president are like a state of anesthesia, and have nothing to do with a state of emergency.
What Bkerke wants is that only the democratic process determines the name of the future president, and on this basis he calls for a session, in which an avowed candidate, Michel Moawad, is confronted with another avowed candidate from the second team, who is fighting his battle, Bkerke will not oppose the arrival of any candidate elected on this basis.
But the question here is: are the opposition teams, on the one hand, and the authority, on the other, actually fighting the battle of their candidates, i.e. the declared Moawad and the unannounced Suleiman Franjieh, at least officially until now?
– Opposition team is not unified around Moawad’s name With the exception of the Lebanese Forces, the Kataeb, the Socialist Party, the Renewal Bloc and some independents, Moawad keeps trying to “up the score” session after session , and tomorrow he should snatch at least two new names from the forces of change: Mark Daou and Najat Saliba of “Progress”. when the majority of Change representatives are still opposed to his candidacy, as are the majority of Sunni representatives, including the representatives of moderation, who refuse not compensation, perhaps, but rather Lebanese Forces support for him.
The ruling party is also in the balance: the Amal movement, Hezbollah and their allies affirm that their candidate is Suleiman Franjieh, while insisting that his name is not mentioned in the sessions, while the Free Patriotic Movement, led by Gebran Bassil, refuses this nomination.
This fact will empty the seventh presidential election round of all content, and all attempts to record scores will not lead to the goal of reaching a number exceeding sixty parliamentary votes, on the basis of which the forces supporting the compensatory for the other team they negotiated from the point of view of strength.
As a result, no surprises are expected in the presidential election, but an emphasis will soon begin on rejecting legislation in the absence of a president of the republic, in order to prevent an attempt to normalize the reality of the presidential vacuum, which has been discussed among Even today the patriarch Al-Rahi and Moawad.
As for the real surprises, they all come from the World Cup in Qatar, where Asian teams record back-to-back victories over their biggest rivals for the cup.
After Argentina’s sensational fall in front of Saudi Arabia yesterday, the “German Manshafts” team fell with two painful blows today in front of the Japanese team, when Spain scored five goals against Costa Rica.
