Basil between alienating the closest ones and bringing the farthest ones closer together

Jean Feghali wrote in “Call of the Nation”: The astuteness of the head of the “Free Patriotic Movement,” Representative Gebran Bassil, is astonishing. He has a political movement, a trend, that no one is keeping pace with. He moves from lawyer Mai Khraish, the theorist of the relationship with “Hezbollah,” to Dr. Naji Hayek, the theorist of the contradiction with “Hezbollah,” without batting an eyelid. The Minister of Defense at the time, Elias Bou Saab, was fighting for him in the Qabarshmoun incident, then later in his war with the Army Commander, General Joseph Aoun, and then in his bias towards the current Minister of Defense, Brigadier General Maurice Slim, and rewarded him by removing him from the “current.” Bou Saab confirmed this incident after His visit to Bishop Elias Odeh the day before yesterday, and he was presented to him by an Orthodox in Northern Matn, Ghassan Khoury.

Simon Abi Ramia is not comfortable in Jbeil, so the winds of the parliamentary seat begin to blow towards lawyer Wadih Akl. Many others feel their necks… On the other hand, Basil compensates for the distancing of those closest to him by bringing those who are far closer together, and the process of distancing by bringing others closer has something of “engineering acumen,” and he is talented in his engineering specialty:
From the Murr family in Matn, at the expense of Elias Bou Saab, to the Skaf family in Zahle, at the expense of Salim Jreissati, and later to the lawyer Wadih Akl at the expense of MP Simon Abi Ramia.

Whoever looks at this map, political and current, discovers the cleverness of Gebran Bassil, and it is not for nothing that there are those who described him as “the owner of the movement and the occupant of the currents,” relying in this on the founder of the “current,” General Michel Aoun, who supports him in all his decisions, “whether unjust or not.” “Oppressed.”

There is another “supporter” of Representative Gebran Bassil, in one way or another, and he is his opponents in the “current,” whether those who are outside it or those who are still inside, waiting for them to leave or be expelled. Gebran Bassil knows them one by one. The opponents who left do not dare to hold a contract. A public meeting or declaring a position or issuing a statement, when the current opposition to Representative Bassil is without a level of audacity, he “sleeps soundly” and does not care about a plot or alignment. He replaces these people with district coordinators who have “blind loyalty” to him.

The question here is: If the “opponents” of the leader of the movement decide to organize and take action, will they succeed? Do they agree on one “political programme”? Or do they even disagree on issuing a statement? Perhaps Gebran Bassil is betting on their lack of harmony, and that is why he will continue “cutting off heads,” whether they are representatives or those with political merits. Or at least keep the sword hanging over their heads.

This is Basil, whether one is with him or against him, and he will not change his policy or his performance, and so far, he is the winner over his opponents, whether inside or outside the “movement,” but there are those who say: “The last battle between Basil and these people is not the time now.” .