The Parliament of Contradictions. What solutions come out of it?

The Parliament of Contradictions. What solutions come out of it?

| Friday 20 May 2022

 Omar Rassi, Akhbar Al Yawm

When crises strike in any country in the world, the tendency is for the formation of a "government of national unity", but in Lebanon, this type of government has proven to be a failure, and has even provoked the collapse of the country turning into an arena of conflict between the conflicting parties, and the composition of the three or the minister king led to paralysis in the making of fundamental decisions... Moreover, his authorship was more long as his reign...

The elections, demanded by some parties since 2019, and which brought the revolutionaries to the "legislative power committee", drew attention to the new government... Several scenarios are discussed but they cannot be adopted for a government that will not last more than two months, because we know that the country will enter the orbit of the presidential next August.

The Middle East is in constant turmoil and the picture may not be clear until next fall, from the Iranian-American negotiations on the nuclear dossier to the explosive crises..

The Free Patriotic Movement, Hezbollah and the Amal Movement have all expressed the need to return to a government of national unity given the dangers present, while the forces classified as "sovereign" and "transformational" believe that these parties have no no longer the majority and must be in opposition... Governing on the basis of "majority rule and minority opposition" and accountability.

According to a reference that the agency "Akhbar Al Yawm" questioned that there is no clear majority so far, and it is not yet known whether the opponents of the current and the Shiite duo will unite to form a monolith or will deal with the files on the piece and then we will be in front of dispersed parliamentary blocs, because each category has a political, economic, social and financial orientation different from the other, and thus bringing them together at the same table will make government again a center of conflict and not a center of solution. Especially since the government, if formed before the presidential expiry date, will exercise the functions of President of the Republic throughout the vacuum period.

Therefore, the reference believes that the optimal formula may be that of majority rule" provided that the opposition forms a "shadow cabinet" to exert pressure on the current government in power to make sound decisions on the economic, financial, social and political plans, paving the way for a way out of the crisis, and stresses that the current objective is to draw up a roadmap for signing with the International Monetary Fund.

In response to a question the reference says that while presidential elections will be held with certainty and firmness next fall, there may be no need to form a government quickly, but no guarantees are given as parliament in its current composition can be described as a "parliament of contradictions".

 We may face further crises, fearing that the momentum of the elections will be stifled, the reference concluded.

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