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Protesters continue to block roads. Here in downtown Beirut, this Monday, October 28, 2019. REUTERS / Alkis Konstantinidis

Twelve days after the beginning of the popular protest in Lebanon, protesters and power camp on their position. The country, paralyzed by the blockage of roads and the closure of banks and schools, is deadlocked.

With our correspondent in Beirut, Paul Khalifeh

No resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri and no government reshuffle. The Lebanese power remains deaf to the demands of the demonstrators who occupy the places of the big cities and block the roads since 12 days.

Following Hezbollah's refusal to resign from the cabinet for fear of a vacuum, President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister have envisioned a major cabinet reshuffle that would dismiss disputed figures , including the Foreign Minister and son-in-law of the head of state. Gebran Bassil.

Hezbollah's new refusal. To accept a change of government, the Shiite party wants guarantees before the end of the paralysis of the country by the protesters. Without a return to normal, no concession is envisaged, because it would involve, according to the circles of Hezbollah, other requests which would go up to the resignation of the president of the Republic. For Hezbollah, Michel Aoun, with whom he is bound by a political alliance concluded in 2006, is a red line.

Faced with this political impasse, the governor of the Central Bank warned against an economic collapse of Lebanon, which is, in his view, only a matter of days.

Riad Salamé sounded the alarm in an interview with CNN, before clarifying his remarks to Reuters: the country needs an urgent political solution.