Who gathered Geagea… and the president’s name is subject to suddenness and surprise?!

It is clear to date that the agreement on the name of the Army Commander, General Joseph Aoun, to reach the presidency has not yet matured, meaning that reaching 86 votes has not yet been completed, despite the leaks in recent hours about Saudi and American support for his arrival, and despite the fact that his name was not Absent from the ambassadors of the five countries, which made several rounds of visits to the political forces to untie the presidential knot without yielding results. Which, in one way or another, indicates a kind of doubt, or at least absolute lack of confidence, in the possibility of the army commander holding the helm of the presidency as some wish.

There are undoubtedly several backgrounds to this, including what is related to the new phase that Lebanon entered after the September aggression, and what is related to the changes that affected Syria in particular, and the reduction of the Iranian role accordingly. However, based on this, it can only be said that Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nabih Berri, has specifically cornered the Christians by setting the date for the election of the President of the Republic on January 9, as it has become necessary for the Christian forces to agree to elect a President of the Republic, at least in order to save their face internally and externally and to prove that the obstruction is not from them and in them, but rather In President Berri, whom they accused of closing the door of the House of Representatives to exercising their constitutional right and by imposing Suleiman Franjieh as the sole presidential candidate. But it can also be said that President Nabih Berri provided them with a golden opportunity, whether he knows or does not know that if the election of a President of the Republic had occurred before the September aggression, his face would not have been like the face of the President of the Republic, which may happen on January 9. Berri provided the Christian opposition, led by the head of the Lebanese Forces party, Samir Geagea, with an opportunity not only to pamper more and more, but also to seek to evaluate the results of the aggression against Hezbollah in the exchange of names of presidential candidates, armed with greater momentum and slow at the same time with a broad set of demands led by the disarmament of Hezbollah, which it supports. It includes a good number of opposition representatives, taking advantage of the state of soul-searching that the Free Patriotic Movement is experiencing after Gebran Bassil stripped Hezbollah’s clothes. With his summer clothes, he is today searching for clothes that protect him from the cold of the present and protect his internal immunity, content with drinking Geagea’s bitterness rather than tasting Joseph Aoun’s bitterness.
There is no doubt that this scene was also affected in one way or another by the new phase into which Syria entered, as the statements of the leader of the Syrian administration, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, were clear in terms of withdrawing Iranian carpets from their lands, opening the doors of Syria to the Turkish and Saudi players, who expressed their willingness to provide all support to the new Syria, in harmony. It is clear between these two players, this was consolidated by strengthening relations between the two countries through a series of agreements, including agreeing on the Kingdom’s purchase of 100 Turkish stealth aircraft. Its value is billions. This movement towards Syria cannot be separate from Lebanon, which was manifested by a similar Saudi movement in Lebanon after years of estrangement, in what is considered a completion of the new ground for Lebanon and Syria in light of a clear Saudi insistence on the necessity of completing the entitlement on January 9. Hence, the face of the new President of the Republic will determine which Lebanon the Lebanese officials wanted, and whether Lebanon will resist the winds of change or will it catch up, knowing that each of these two options has its price. In the face of time constraints, the answer remains in the last quarter of an hour, during which the president’s name may be the name of suddenness and surprise.