What if the cabinet doesn’t meet?

What if the cabinet doesn’t meet?

| Friday 07 January 2022

Akhbar Al Yawm

The Lebanese live in the hope of holding a cabinet meeting, hoping that the dollar exchange rate will fall, hoping to secure electricity 24/24 until maybe 14 hours a day instead of relying on the greed of generator owners. They live in the hope of stopping political debates and paying attention to people's concerns and problems, but hope is one thing and reality is another more painful thing.

Two days will inject a dose of hope and an optimistic atmosphere...

The Lebanese President, General Michel Aoun, met with Prime Minister Najib Mikati, and there was a call with Representative President Nabih Berri, even if the communication is normal on which little thing is built. It was agreed to open a special session of the House of Representatives and to hold a session of the Council of Ministers to discuss the budget required in negotiation with the International Monetary Fund.

What's next? What if the meetings are limited to discussing the budget in the presence of one of the "bilateral" ministers? What if the cabinet didn’t even meet, and the story was just talked in the air?

It is about a new settlement. Everyone disavowals her again. "Dual," says no one has approached him on the issue of returning to government sessions. Originally, there is no return before the judicial investigator "pug" in the explosion of the port of Beirut, Judge Tarek Al Bitar. I mean so far there is no government breakthrough, let alone futile and deep debates between all parties inside and outside the government. The eye on the elections and the need for decisions to be taken in the Council of Ministers, such as appointing the supervisory authority and determining the expenses of the electoral process, in addition to living decisions that mean the affairs of citizens and their prisons and alleviate their suffering.

In other words, the crisis is open, what can the president of the republic do? Especially after the setbacks that hit President Aoun and him the "Free Patriotic Movement": from Mikati's rejection of the invitation to the Council of Ministers to the "no decision" of the Constitutional Council in the appeal submitted by the "strong Lebanon" bloc, and the announcement of the opening of an extraordinary session of the House of Representatives before the convening of the Council of Ministers (knowing that the President Aoun refuses to disrupt Berri and demands with his bloc to discuss and approve the proposals of laws in the Council before the end of his term). If the Council of Ministers does not convene or is limited to passing the budget, Berri's bloc should ask a question to the absence of Representatives about the Council of Ministers and this is what happened, and if the answer is not satisfactory, the bloc is not satisfactory Trust in the government In the event of an absolute confrontation, the ministers of the President of the Republic withdraw from the government.

On the other hand, some see fear for the powers of the Lebanese President, that is, Aoun and his role after all these setbacks, and the greatest fear that these steps, the aforementioned, constitute a reference to the possibility of signing a parliamentary petition demanding the resignation of the Lebanese President Aoun.

Is there any sane person who can bear the sectarian imbalance?

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