“Right notes on the course of authorship” … Does the government get confidence?

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

At a time when Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is pushing to complete the ministerial statement in the coming days in order to vote on granting his government confidence next week, it seems that a number of parliamentary blocs are seriously studying refraining from granting confidence; In protest against the absence of the government formation.

Salam said, in a television interview, that he collided with the criteria set by the head of the “Free Patriotic Movement”, MP Gibran Bassil, related to linking the representation of his current in the government the size of his parliamentary bloc, and Salam confirmed that this was not among the criteria he adopted and that it was difficult to reach an understanding with Basil about This point. As for the “National Moderation Bloc”, they had the standard of regional representation, while its standard was the degree of efficiency of names.

“Free Patriotic”

The “Free Patriotic Movement” leads the opposition ranks, and he responded in a statement on Wednesday, according to what was stated by Salam in his first television interview, considering that the words of Salam “contradict the truth when he said that the standard of current that did not accept others is to calculate the size of the parliamentary blocs numerically.” The “Free Patriotic” saw that “the truth is otherwise, and that the only standard of current was justice and a level of treatment for all the blocs, and the situation witnessed by everyone who participated in the authorship is that the criterion of the prime minister was the discretion and the duplication of standards in partisans, the masters, the specialists and the sizes of acting and in the right The name and the distribution of bags, especially in the representation defect for sects, components and blocks.

The Vice -President of the “Free Patriotic Movement”, Dr. Naji Hayek, explained that the most prominent thing that has been objected to is “jumping over the rights of Christians, because the ministries given to Christians are not the same as those that were given to others, and here it is possible to talk about the lack of a balance in the sectarian distribution of the ministries, and this is a subject that is not We can overcome it because we consider the rights of Christians sacred. ”

Hayek told Asharq Al -Awsat: “There is no doubt that we hope that this government will have the ability to achieve and work, especially since the situation has become different after changing the military situation on the ground and the situation (the Shiite duo). In any case, we will stand next to her if there are achievements and we will oppose any decisions that do not serve the country’s interest. ”

Hayek pointed out that the final decision regarding the granting of this government or not has not yet been deleted, but it was suggested that the “Free Patriotic Movement” not give it confidence. In response to a question, he said: “There is no doubt that the opposition is more profitable popular, but it is the circumstances that led to our presence in its ranks because we did not accept that the President peace be upon our ministers as he did with other parties.”

The position of “moderation”

The objection was not limited to the “Free Patriotic Movement”, as a member of the “National Moderation” bloc went to MP Walid Al -Braini with a statement to peace, in which he said: “Your words stab us and challenge Akkar at the core more. Whoever you choose is more efficient than those who presented (moderation), as if you say that there are no Sunni competencies in Akkar in order to be lost or that the electorate that elected us is not qualified for ministerialism.

The member of the “Moderation” bloc, Ahmed Al -Khair, notes that “the issue of giving confidence or blocking it from the government is under consultation within the bloc and with the rest of the Sunni blocs”, speaking to “Al -Sharq Al -Awsat” about “right notes on the course of authorship”, and added: “We count on an initiative from President Nawaf Salam to correct what happened and open a new page in the relationship with the Sunni representatives and correct the path towards more dialogue, integration and cooperation between the deputies and the prime minister, especially between the Sunni representatives and the position of the prime minister, which has Sunni privacy, and from our constants to be supportive of it.

Goodness considers that «the government today has become a fait accompli, and the ruling will be on its ministerial statement, its work program and its ability to face challenges and meet the aspirations of the Lebanese for the next stage, while emphasizing that in our position we are trying to reconcile our observations and our support for the era of President Joseph Aoun, and we seek to be a sound start It translates my speech and assignment into actions that achieve the interests of the Lebanese, and re -put Lebanon on the railway of recovery, reform, reconstruction and development.

Parliamentary trust

And if the “Free Patriotic Movement” and the majority of the Sunni representatives decide not to grant confidence already, except that exceeding this entitlement will be easy because the quorum of granting confidence requires an ordinary majority, that is, the half plus, that is, the presence of 65 deputies in the session, which is a number that facilitates the peace of its collection, and that the vote is also On confidence in the simple majority, that is, the half plus, that is, the vote of 33 deputies is sufficient to obtain confidence.

Hariri tour

Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri toured the three presidents, which he started with a visit to the President of the Republic, Joseph Aoun, and congratulated him on his election.

The National Media Agency quoted Hariri as saying: “We meet you on Friday,” which falls on February 14, the twentieth anniversary of the assassination of his father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The Prime Minister also received Judge Nawaf Salam, Hariri, in his office, in the government companies, and presented with him the current developments. Hariri congratulated Salam on the formation of the government, wishing him “success and success in his duties”, then moved to Ain Al -Tineh to meet the Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri.

During his tour today, the Mufti of the Lebanese Republic, Sheikh Abdul Latif Drian, and former Prime Minister Naguib Mikati, who wished to “be the memory of the martyrdom of President Rafik Hariri and his comrades on the fourteenth of thisippe, is an occasion to enhance unity between the Lebanese and meet a word.”