Le député Kassem Hachem du bloc parlementaire du développement et de la libération a réitéré le refus du mouvement Amal à ce que soit appliqué un principe de rotation des portefeuilles au ministère des finances.
Le principe de rotation des portefeuille peut être discuté jusqu’à un accord à l’exception de celui des finances qui en est exclu.
Le parlementaire, proche du président de la chambre Nabih Berri, s’exprimait sur les ondes de la Voix du Liban.
La rotation des portefeuilles ministériels est réclamée par une partie de la classe politique dont les alliés de l’ancien premier ministre Saad Hariri aujourd’hui premier ministre désigné.
Même si Saad Hariri s’affiche comme étant optimiste, les observateurs locaux doutent d’une formation prochaine de son cabinet en raison de plusieurs écueils portant sur le ministère des finances, un poste clé dans le cadre des prochaines réformes à mener ou encore du ministère de la santé, réclamé à la fois par le Hezbollah et le PSP de Walid Joumblatt.
A country without a government as the economic crisis hits it hard
Lebanon has been without government since the resignation, on August 10, of outgoing Prime Minister Hassan Diab.
The formation of a new government is considered as one of the preconditions for the relaunch of negotiations with the International Monetary Fund in order to obtain the release of financial aid from the international community in the face of the economic crisis that Lebanon is going through.
Following Mustafa Adib’s failure to form a cabinet, former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who resigned following major protests in October 2019, was tasked with forming a new government in October 2020.
In an attempt to unblock the situation, the former prime minister promised the Amal movement to allocate the portfolio of the finance ministry to a member of the Shiite community. He also reiterated that Lebanon could do without a state of default, thus denying the gravity of the economic crisis however experienced by the population, with 55% of it now living below the poverty line while the economic recession has reached 29% according to some reports for the year 2020.
However, Saad Hariri’s proposals for an 18-member cabinet clash with the Presidency of the Republic, who points out that if the Shiite and Sunni communities choose their representatives, the Christian representatives in the new cabinet would also be chosen by the former. designated minister. General Aoun de facto considers that the current proposals of the Prime Minister contravene both the Lebanese constitution and the national pact.
The latter, for his part, accuses the head of state of wanting to obtain a blocking third party within his new cabinet.
