Chose attendue après que le mouvement Amal et le Hezbollah aient annoncé leurs soutien à l’ancien premier ministre Saad Hariri, c’est au tour du dirigeant du mouvement Marada Sleiman Franjieh d’annoncer le sien.
Il a ainsi annoncé que les députés de son parti, dont son fils Tony Franjieh, accorderont leurs soutiens respectifs à l’ancien premier ministre au cours des consultations parlementaires obligatoires qui débuteront le 15 octobre.
Cette annonce a été effectuée à l’issue d’une réunion avec une délégation du Courant Du Futur, dirigée par la député Bahia Hariri, tante de Saad Hariri. Il a également déclaré espérer que le prochain gouvernement soit constitué de personnes capables de mettre en place la feuille de route française.
La nomination de Saad Hariri comme prochain premier ministre n’est pas, pour l’heure, acquise, avec l’opposition qui a été annoncée hier dans son propre camp, de l’ancien député 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.
