Yesterday, the Lebanese Prime Minister-designate, Hassan Diab, began consulting with the parliamentary blocs to form the new government, while some blocs announced their refusal to participate in the government, in conjunction with cutting off several roads, and in the aftermath of clashes between protesters over his mandate and the security forces, at a time he called the outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri demonstrators to express their feelings in a peaceful manner.
Calls were circulated on social media to close the roads leading to Parliament, in protest against the consultations to form the new government, and supporters of Al-Hariri returned to cutting several main and branch roads in the areas of Tripoli, Akkar and the Bekaa yesterday morning.
Protesters of the popular movement in the Halaba sit-in tent halted the entire Halba highway, with non-flammable rubber tires and iron obstructions, and allowed only the passage of military vehicles, the Red Cross and emergency situations, and in the Corniche area of Mazraa in Beirut, which is one of the strongholds of the Future Movement led by Hariri in the capital Protesters crossed a main road, threw stones and firecrackers, the riot police intervened, and fired tear gas to disperse them, and the tension continued until late last night.
For his part, Hariri called on the demonstrators to express their feelings in a peaceful manner, without exposure to the army or security forces, and he said after meeting Diab in the House of Representatives, addressing the demonstrators: “I would like to say one thing for the young people who pretend and went out to express their feelings, everyone has the right to He expresses his feelings, and I wish everyone who expresses himself, and his feelings, so let him cross, but in every peaceful way, because the army is our army, and it is for all Lebanese, and the internal security forces are for all Lebanese, and I wish everyone who wants to express his position to express it through peaceful pretense, And that's what I'm asking everyone. ”
He added, "We are the children of Rafik Hariri, we are used to his path, and we will follow this method, and I wish the best of consultations."
The Parliamentary Bloc informed Diab that it would not participate in the next government. Representative Samir Al-Jisr said, after the bloc met with the Prime Minister-designate: “We informed him not to participate in the government, neither directly nor indirectly, and we wished him to have the government composed of specialists, and this is a desire All people".
He added: "We called on him to form a government quickly, because it will be of one color, so there is no need for delay in formation."
"We do not want anything from the government, we do not want to be inside it, and we hope it will be successful. The international community has bad experiences with Lebanon, and therefore will not They put one penny if they are not sure that it will reach the Lebanese people. The important issue today is the economic, financial and living situation and not the factions of March 8 and 14.
The "Democratic Gathering" bloc announced its refusal to participate in the next government, and said in a press statement, that "at this critical and crucial moment in Lebanon, it appears that those concerned with government affairs are approaching the process by traditional methods that do not rise to the level of challenges, and do not take into account The size of the dangerous divisions and convulsions among the Lebanese, as the rift increases and the situation worsens, and the street is congested more and more, foretelling of the worst ».
She added, "The context in which the commissioning and authoring process takes place suggests a predetermined scenario that will inevitably produce an incompetent government unable to meet the aspirations of the Lebanese people, and the political class has once again failed to propose solutions and save the country at the most dangerous stage in Lebanon's history."
"The government is not a confrontational government, and it is not of one color, and it must respond to the suffering of the Lebanese, and put forward the correct approaches to revitalize the country on the economic and social levels," said MP Mohamed Raad, who belongs to the Parliamentary Bloc of Hezbollah.
Parliamentary consultations conducted by the Prime Minister-designate began yesterday noon, and since Diab's mandate last Thursday, protests were launched in a number of regions, calling for his removal, and these protests permeated confrontations with the army and security forces, which resulted in injuries.
Protesters continue to block roads in several areas, in protest at Diab's mandate.