Hezbollah to Macron: Hold your limits!

It is the first day in the life of political monotony that seems to last for a long time. There are no contacts between politicians and the crowding of consultations and meetings. French President Emmanuel Macron extended his initiative for six weeks, but everyone already realizes that there is no government in sight. Not prior to the release of the US election results and the clarification of Washington’s new way of working on the region’s files. Over the past month, politicians have been waiting for the French president and his entourage to dictate directions to them, and they implement without objection. These same people are waiting for an American decision next November, and at the same time they are awaiting the words of the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, this evening. Although it is not clear yet whether Nasrallah will direct harsh words to Macron as a result of the “accusations” that he made against Hezbollah at a conference the day before yesterday, or whether the speech will come firm in content and calm in form. The party seems very dissatisfied with the expressions of the French president, who does not have the right to use them, especially since the party was completely frank with him during the September 1 meeting at the Pine Palace. As he was clearly informed that day of what the party accepts and what it opposes; And throughout the subsequent period, whether when consulting or writing, or in meetings with French officials in Beirut, the party maintained its position without any modification. The party’s dissatisfaction was expressed by the television station, Al-Manar, during the introduction of the news bulletin yesterday evening, so she went to Macron by saying: “I mistook the style and mislead the title, and apparently suspected between the care homes and the act of guardianship.” The channel considered that the French president’s words “indicate the embarrassment of his position after his mission was faltered by his American allies and their tools in the region and Lebanon,” rejecting “the message of threats and intimidation, preaching and the distribution of accusations, in a place like Lebanon.” The party asked, via Al-Manar, about the role that Macron will have in the country, if it is to “copy the American position and coincide with the Israeli position and some Arabs, so it is a party.” And Hezbollah demanded, through its TV channel, to publish the text of the initiative and what it contained so that the Lebanese would know what was wrong and what was easy, “unless Hezbollah and the parliamentary majority are required to hand over the entire government and this sensitive circumstance from the life of the nation to the bombers of the initiative?” Macron recommended looking into the Lebanese reality, “which is not similar to what some of his advisors and the selected media reported in his press conference working within the choir of the ten billion US dollars spent in Lebanon.”

Aoun will not call for quick parliamentary consultations so that Adib’s experience is not repeated

For his part, Representative Ali Hassan Khalil refused to comment on what was stated in Macron’s speech, indicating in a televised interview that “the initiative whose details have been agreed upon are written, distributed and known.” He stressed that «there are no contacts or consultations at the current level in the internal government affairs», pointing out that «nothing prevents consultations between President Michel Aoun and Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri». Meanwhile, high-ranking sources on the March 8 team confirm that negotiations to form the government will focus in the coming weeks on “agreeing on the rules for forming the government before agreeing to assign a president to it.” In this context, Aoun is still impatient and will not quickly call for parliamentary consultations to assign a new figure to form the government, “so that Mustafa Adeeb’s experience is not repeated,” according to Baabda sources. However, the President of the Republic, while receiving the French Ambassador, Bruno Fucher, on the occasion of the end of his diplomatic work in Lebanon, expressed his adherence to the French initiative, noting “the interest shown by the French President towards Lebanon and the Lebanese.” Aoun regretted “Adeeb’s inability to form a government according to the steps of the initiative in terms of reforms that are supposed to take place, whether those that need laws approved by the parliament or those that will be issued by the government soon after its formation and gaining confidence. The circles of the Free Patriotic Movement indicate that “it was and still is a facilitator of what was agreed upon in the Pine Palace.” She added that “the movement did not impede nor impose a demand or conditions other than respect for the constitution, the unity of standards, and respect for the position and role of the presidency.”

Hariri is embarrassed
On another plot, and after the political circles were busy and celebrations spread among the Future Movement bases as a result of what was leaked by the “Russia Today” website, prior to Macron’s speech the day before yesterday, about a contact between the French President and Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, during which it was agreed that Saad Hariri would head the government. The upcoming news, the Russian channel, retracted the news yesterday, after it was found to be inaccurate. “Russia Today” soon amended the title of the news, and confined itself to publishing the statement of Hariri’s media office confirming that he would not run for prime minister, while stressing his “position in support of the French president’s initiative and facilitating everything that would make it succeed as the only and last opportunity to stop the collapse of Lebanon.” “Al-Akhbar” learned that “Russia Today” reprimanded its correspondent who reported the news without verifying other sources. She was the victim of the source who invaded this news for her, and informed Russian sources suggested that he was “a Parisian source close to Hariri.” In the same context, sources close to Hariri told Al-Akhbar that the latter had switched off his engines after Adib apologized for not forming the government last Saturday. According to the sources, Hariri sees himself in an embarrassing position, as he is unable to confront Hezbollah, nor is he able at the same time to confront Washington and Riyadh, which want him as a spearhead in the face of Hezbollah.

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