For prior understanding of the ministerial statement

Paula Istah wrote in “Al -Sharq Al -Awsat”:

The Lebanese Forces Party pushes the government formation file beyond a formation that keeps pace with the new stage that Lebanon entered; If it is in terms of not giving the Ministry of Finance to the “Shiite duo”; That is, “Hezbollah” and the “Amal” movement, and obtaining a “balanced share that is in line with its representation”; He wants through the negotiations he is fighting with the Prime Minister -designate, to reach understandings regarding the ministerial statement, and obtain a number of guarantees.

Prospatable understanding of the government’s vision

Leadership sources in the “forces” say that “after we entered a new stage, the government is supposed to be a reflection of this stage, so it is not an ancient government in its composition, vision, or ministerial statement,” noting that “the ongoing negotiations include the government’s vision to consider that it is not only a composition of the ministers It has two national jobs; The first sovereign is linked to the sovereignty of the state over all Lebanese lands. The second is financial – reformist, so it is primarily for us that the Ministry of Finance is not in the hands of the (duo).

The sources believe in a statement to Asharq Al -Awsat that “it is a self -evident that the ministerial statement is not included in the term (people) when referring to liberation. The people are the source of the powers, and he elected their deputies who elected the President of the Republic and assigned the prime minister, and therefore the ministerial statement is supposed to include the term state only, as it is the one that defends the sovereignty of Lebanon and protects Lebanon, “considering that” whoever pays to use other terms wants to keep Lebanon is in the quagmire of chaos, which we cannot accept and categorically reject it.

Guarantees from the ministers of “reluctance”

A member of the “strong republic” bloc, Representative Ghada Ayoub, talks about “guarantees that every team that wants to participate in the government is supposed to be given in order to prevent obstruction”, asking: “Have the ministers who are selected by the resistance parties were asked, and they took guarantees from them in relation to the implementation of international decisions and the constitution, especially the item Monopolizing weapons and extending the state’s authority over its entire lands with its own forces? Especially since today (the Shiite duo), especially (Hezbollah), has not waived and declared the Lebanese by accepting all the levels of the ceasefire decision and implementing Resolution 1701 in the northern Litani region as in the south. Is their entry into the government with the aim of obstructing or implicit acceptance? ”

Ayoub believes in a statement to Asharq Al -Awsat that “Lebanon entered a new stage with the election of Aoun and the assignment of peace, which is supposed to give a payment to the new era after the end of the Iranian and Syrian role and the role of reluctance to dominate the Lebanese sovereign decision … all of this requires that the new government meet several Requirements, and the forefront of which is the application of the constitution and international decisions, and the ceasefire agreement in all its feet, and that its ministerial statement be a revised and expanded version of the department’s discourse and its basic reforms, in terms of the state’s monopoly of legal weapon, and that it is able to carry out all financial, economic and structural reforms » She added: «But the most important thing, and in order to play its role, the government is supposed to be homogeneous capable of restoring the strategic decision of the state and imposing its sovereignty, and applying the department’s speech supported by the basic sovereign parties to take the appropriate payment, and it has a political transmission to implement all decisions.”

The ministerial statement

The ministerial data for previous governments, especially after 2005, has long been a substance that is attracted between the political forces, especially in light of the “Hezbollah” insistence on the legislation of the “resistance” through it. But it seems clear that there is a great pressure to drop any of this type in the upcoming new statement.

Lawyer, Dr. Paul Morcos, President of the Human Human Rights Foundation, notes that “there are no detailed provisions in the constitution on formulating and presenting the ministerial statement,” noting that “most of the matter is that the government is required to represent before the parliament for confidence, and who The elements of Nile Al -Thiqa is the ministerial statement. ”

Article 64 of the Constitution states that the government must submit from the House of Representatives to its ministerial statement within a period of 30 days after the issuance of the decree of its formation. Marcus believes that “pushing to agree in advance on the statement before the formation of the government is a hybrid and contrary to logic; As the ministers, after they are called, a ministerial committee emerges from them that formulates the ministerial statement and then submits it to the government to agree to it before they appear before the parliament to obtain confidence.