Pluralism, federalism and centralization are strange vocabulary from our dictionary

The Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Mar Bechara Boutros Al -Raei pointed out that “we live in the shadow of a parliamentary democratic system and in the shadow of a national charter,” explaining that pluralism, federalism and centralization are a vocabulary of our political and constitutional dictionary.

He pointed out in his sermon during the Sunday Mass in Bakri, that “it is required for the sects to waive the state, not the state, but the goal of some is to control the state and not to modernize the system,” stressing that “some of those who call for changing the constitution aim to expand their authority in the state and not improve it,” considering that “the role of the citizen is absent in Lebanon.”