The announcement of the formation of the government … and its president pledges to restore confidence

Yoshf Diab wrote in “Al -Sharq Al -Awsat”:

A full month after the election of General Joseph Aoun as President of the Republic, and on the 25th day to assign President Nawaf Salam to form it, the Lebanese government has seen the light to become the constitutional authority that left the government of President Naguib Mikati, which remained behavior for two years and 9 months, and the irony was that she was born with the presence of the deputy of the American special envoy For the Middle East, Morgan Ortigos, which means that American messages and international pressure did their action to form a government.

The success of communications and consultations led to the dissolution of the knot represented by the choice of the Fifth Shiite Minister in the government, by agreeing on the name of Fadi Makki as Minister of Administrative Development, after the Shiite duo rejected the name of Lamia Mabayd, who was chosen by Salam for this ministry, and then the latter reserved the name of the former deputy governor of Lebanon, Raed Sharaf Religion, the decrees of the resignation of the previous government and the formation of the new government announced after a triple meeting that included President Joseph Aoun, Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam in Baabda Palace, and when Berri left the meeting and asked him whether the government will be born, Berri replied: “Baraka Mar Maroun, in reference to the Maronites celebrating the sect’s founder on Sunday.
The names of the ministers
As soon as Berri left the Republican Palace, the Secretary General of the Council of Ministers, Judge Mahmoud Makkaya, who recited 3 decrees; The first is a decree of the resignation of the government of Naguib Mikati, the second is the decree of naming Nawaf Salam as prime minister, and the third is the decree of the formation of the government, and it included 24 ministers: Nawaf Salam as the prime minister, Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Mitri, Defense Minister Michel Mansi, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Youssef Raji, Minister of Communications Charles Al -Hajj, Minister of Energy and Water Joseph Sadi, Minister of Interior Ahmed Al -Hajjar, Minister of Justice Adel Nassar, Minister of Finance Yassin Jaber, Minister of Public Health Rakan Nasser Al -Din, Minister of Culture Ghassan Salama, Minister of Industry Joe Issa Al -Khoury, Minister of Economy and Trade Amer Al -Bassat, Minister of Agriculture Nizar Hani, Minister of Information, Paul Marqus, Minister of Social Affairs, Hanin Al -Sayed, Minister of Public Works and Transport, Fayez Rasamani, Minister of Displaced Kamal Shehadeh (Minister of State for Technology), Minister of Labor Mohamed Haider, Minister of Youth and Sports Nora Bayradari, Minister of Tourism, Laura Al -Khazen Lahoud, Minister of Administrative Development Fadi Makki, Minister of Education and Higher Education Rima Karami, Minister of Environment Tamara Al -Zain.
Pre -authorship consultations
The government announced an intense round of communications, and the facts of the past hours showed that what delayed the birth of the government is the name of the fifth Shiite minister, unlike the information that talked about the representation of the Sunni representatives, and sources in keeping with the formation consultations of Asharq Al -Awsat confirmed that «the atmosphere that prevailed The meeting of the three presidents, Joseph Aoun, Nabih Berri and Nawaf Salam in the Republican Palace, was very positive, and it was understood by the name of Minister Makki, who had the approval of the presidents and without any reservation. The sources did not hide that the President of the Republic “proposed the name of Raed Sharaf al -Din, who has a good biography, and no one questioned the cleanliness, knowledge and efficiency of his palm, but he did not believe in the intersection between the designated president and the Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, which led to the choice of another personality.”

And if the government’s birth by remaining the names of the Shi’a ministers chosen by the duo “Amal” and “Hezbollah”, contrary to the American position that was expressed by the deputy of the American special envoy to the Middle East, Morgan Ortigos, who refused to enter Hezbollah to the government from the complications of the scene and obstruct the start The government, the sources pointed out that “the Americans are not against the representation of the Shiites in the government at all, but they do not want ministers belonging to” Hezbollah “in the government, and this position may be informed by President Berry personally, and they know that the proposed names to take over the Shiite bags are non -party.

Peace pledges
In the wake of the birth of the government, the Presidency of the Republic announced through the platform «X» that the cabinet was invited to the first session on Tuesday, February 11, at 11 pm in the Baabda Palace to form the Ministerial Statement Drafting Committee, preceded by capturing the memorial photo of the new government.

After announcing the names of the ministers, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam delivered a brief speech in which he affirmed that his government “will seek to restore trust between citizens and the state and between Lebanon and its Arab surroundings and between Lebanon and the international community.” He said: «The government will have to work with the House of Representatives to complete the implementation of the Taif Agreement and to proceed with financial and economic reforms and the government will be a space for constructive joint work and not for contradictions. “It is important for the government to be a government of reform, rescue, and reform is the only way to real rescue.”

Mikati congratulates
Former Prime Minister Naguib Mikati congratulated the formation of the new government, wishing its president, Dr. Nawwaf Salam and its members success. He said: “We salute the efforts of His Excellency President Joseph Aoun to issue the first government during his reign, and we hope that the full cooperation will be the characteristic of the stage that requires a lot of work to resolve the many outstanding issues, foremost of which is the end of the Israeli occupation in the south and the completion of the implementation of Resolution 1701, as we wish the new government The success in following up the rescue efforts that our government has established for more than three years.