Danny Haddad wrote on mtv:
Hezbollah wants to form a government. He is the only one who tried, more than a month ago, to get a breach in this sense and he almost succeeded. Party officials claimed that a new government would be formed before the end of the era. After some obstacles emerged, officials kept repeating the same saying: the government is soon. It had to arise at the end of last week, before new obstacles emerged that could be summarized by the desire of the representative Gebran Bassil, five Christian ministers.
The President of the Parliament Nabih Berri tried to exploit the climate of consensus that resisted in the last meeting between the President of the Republic, the two heads of Parliament and the government. During the meeting he said to President Michel Aoun and President Najib Mikati: Let’s take advantage of our presence here together and announce the government. Mikati commented to Aoun: Why don’t you summon the Director General of the Presidency of the Republic and sign the government formation decree? Aoun’s response was negative. He said he wanted ministers whose voices were loud.
Aoun’s position reflects Basil’s desire. He is dissatisfied with all his ministers of him. Rather, he, like Aoun, speaks negatively of most of the current ministers he has chosen. However, this desire hides, in the eyes of many, Bassil’s decision not to form a government, which would make it easier for him to play the opposition role in the next stage, as it would weaken Mikati, embarrass everyone and push for the election of a president.
A few hours later, Aoun’s position, which angered Mikati, got the prime minister-designate in Bkerke, knowing the date had been agreed in advance. Mikati put Patriarch Mar Beshara Boutros al-Ra’i in the middle of what happened and informed him of Basil’s unreachable condition, according to him. There is information that Mikati has asked Al-Rahi to avoid calls to form a government, but rather to provide cover for the current government.
It was extraordinary, in yesterday’s sermon by Al-Ra’i, that he did not touch the government formation file, but rather focused on the presidential elections, with the formation of a “global and non-sectarian government” after the presidency. .
Are there any possibilities of forming a government? It is more useful to say that it has become insignificant, which has angered Hezbollah, which knows the next few days will be decisive if it wants to pressure, especially its orange ally, to withdraw from its condition.
Experience has it that Basil will not back down. But a final phase of the efforts should begin on Wednesday, after the party was reassured on the demarcation file: perhaps the government will see the light at the end of this week, otherwise there will be no government.
Note that the sources of Baabda and Serail agree, for once, on pessimism.
