Beirut (Union)
The interim prime minister of Lebanon, Najib Mikati, announced yesterday that he will continue to assume responsibility, despite the difficulties, asking to speed up the process of electing the president of the republic.
“The session we are holding is outstanding in every sense of the word, and the most outstanding in it is the medical record that was the spark to hold it, which is related to cancer patient rights and dialysis,” Mikati said, at the start of a Cabinet meeting held yesterday.
He added: “If it weren’t for this file, we would not have convened this session, but if some people are hiding behind the constitution and coexistence, then we tell them that they are not reached by people’s deaths, and in any case this does not it will happen from our hands.”
Mikati stressed that he had not kept up with those who asked not to hold this session lest he be involved in a homicide by abstaining, indicating that “this is not going to happen.”
He said: “Today we have reached a point where we are no longer able to spend on cancer patients and dialysis patients,” adding: “I address this message to all Lebanese and to all spiritual, parliamentary, political and social . If they want the country to completely collapse, then I’m not happy with this job I’m getting.” It contains hundreds of requests and I am unable to fulfill them.
Yesterday the first session of the Council of Ministers was held after the presidential vacancy, chaired by Mikati and the absence of 7 ministers, due to their opposition to the convening of the session from a constitutional and statutory point of view, in order to study the 25 points on his agenda, the most important of which is the one relating to the health record.
Interestingly, former President Michel Aoun’s mandate ended on October 31 and Lebanon entered a presidential vacancy phase.
