Carole Salloum - "Akhbar Al Yawm"

Whoever thinks that the duel in the Christian nerve between the Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese Forces will end, and the two parties will return to a consensual base under the title of fear for the Christian presence, is mistaken. It is hard to stop the tools of the battle between them, which intensified and intensified at each junction. The two parties have their accounts and convictions related to their presence on the ground and their popularity, and therefore they do not exaggerate in using various types of methods to win over and maintain this presence at all costs.

However, sometimes the accounts do not match, and a particular performance, position, or procedure loses this partisan popularity. Here the competing party benefits from what happened to impose its strength and to say: “I am the strongest,” knowing that adhering to this saying did not bring any benefit.
In the recent period, the two parties did not calm down and entered into debates that were exacerbated by social media. The past was dug up, and videos were broadcast, some of the ridiculous, and some narrated accounts of documented events about what this or that party did.
Of course, the Tayouneh incident entered the line, and regardless of its circumstances and the surrounding data and what resulted from it on the ground, it certainly prompted a reading related to the mass of the two parties and their sympathy with the Christian public opinion.

Some consider that what happened served the party of forces electorally, and some saw the opposite. But in both cases, there is that vision always connected to the Christian nerve.

Well-informed political sources indicated to the "Akhbar Al Yawm" agency that it is not possible to look at the measure of victory from this perspective because the two parties decided to fight a far-reaching battle and drew in advance the road map and studied the strengths and weaknesses. Taking into account the large changes that occurred and that greatly affected their reality. In logic, there is a loss that will be recorded, and the profit will be at the expense of one of them.
It believes that this battle is open to the max, with the participation of the allies as well.

The same sources make it clear that the entry of various civil society groups as opposition or revolutionary groups is the focus of follow-up by them, and therefore the thinking is serious to complete communication and prepare for running for elections, noting that some of the factors that played roles in any elections have not changed. But if there is a hidden game related to an alliance under the table between them, the sources rule this out.

Away from the elections, she believes that the positioning of the two parties is expanding more and more and that the duel between them often reaches the level of life or death. Are they preparing for something stronger than that? Perhaps yes or perhaps no, but the words of the supporters in the two parties and even the grassroots are the same: Save us before it is too late.

In this context, the sources consider that the conditions that change from day to day will re-shuffle all the cards and will have repercussions on all levels, and the current and the forces will never be immune from them, and then it is possible to see what each party owns of popular credit or otherwise.