Speaker Nabih Berri called for a meeting of parliament this Friday at 2 p.m. to discuss the letter he received from the Presidency of the Republic.
The head of state accuses Prime Minister designate Saad Hariri – still on a private trip to Abu Dhabi – of being behind the delay in forming the next government.
The President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, thus called on Parliament to take a stand in the conflict between the two men and to implement the appropriate measures to deal with it while the Land of the Cedars could plunge into a major crisis. following the end of the program to subsidize the purchase of basic necessities for lack of monetary reserves available.
The head of state also accused Saad Hariri of taking the government and the population hostage by putting an end to the binding consultations with the various parliamentary blocs and with the President of the Republic. The President pointed out to parliamentarians that the constitution stipulates that the Prime Minister-designate forms the government in “agreement” with the president before the publication of his decree of formation.
For his part, Saad Hariri responded on Twitter, believing that the president’s letter to parliament insists on the reversal of facts and evasion policy and aims to cover up the foreign minister’s diplomatic scandal towards the Arab Gulf brothers. , allusion to the words of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Charbel Wehbé who had accused “brother countries” of having sent the terrorist organization Daesh to Lebanon.
