In a move that few expected, tens of thousands of Lebanese took to the streets and poured out their anger on the political elite, in a rare challenge to political families of different sects and warlords who say they have brought the country to the point of destruction.

In an indication of the rising volume of popular resentment, it appeared pointing out the outbreak of angry demonstrations in areas affiliated with political currents in force, in which protesters burned and tore pictures of political leaders and leaders, raising Lebanese flags rather than partisans, and demanding a break of bread and a living away from the confessions and narrow sectarian calculations.

In the anger of the Lebanese in their streets over the past few days, no leader, Christian or Muslim, was spared from the anger of the protesters in a rare show of unity in a country torn by sectarianism, controlling its political joints and determining the bishop's positions and movements.

In their anger, too, the Lebanese passed the ceilings of the economic crisis that moved them on their first day, and their rhetoric, slogans and attitudes extended to the political system that governs them and controls their destinies for decades. The Lebanese slogans and slogans show a clear rebellion against the political system created by the civil war and humiliated by the politicians of Lebanon in the subsequent period.

The start of a shake-up can be seen in the existing alliances, and in the understandings that formed the current government, where the head of the Lebanese Forces Party Samir Geagea announced the resignation of his ministers from the government. Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has made clear criticisms of some of his partners in the government. Short time to provide appropriate solutions to the crisis.

While entering the street as an unorganized and unframed force, it is possible to speak of a number of political leaders who largely control the joints of the Lebanese political scene with other less influential and weaker forces present.

The most prominent of these leaders are:

Michel Aoun President of the Republic
He is a Lebanese military and political politician whose life ranged from the leadership of the Lebanese army to the fire of civil war and the mines of politics, before he went into French exile and then returned to his country to establish the Free Patriotic Movement.

In 1988, as leader of the Lebanese army, Aoun headed a transitional government by decree of President Amin Gemayel on the last day of his term, in parallel with another government headed by Dr. Salim al-Hoss.

He engaged in bloody confrontations with the Syrian army in Lebanon and then with the commander of the "Lebanese Forces" Samir Geagea.

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Aoun took refuge in the French Embassy in the Hazmieh area of ​​Beirut on 13 October 1990. From there he was deported on 29 August 1991 by land to Dbayeh beach, from Cyprus to Cyprus, and then to Paris via a French warship.

Aoun's exile ended in France and returned to Beirut on August 7, 2005, and on September 18, 2005, he founded the Free Patriotic Movement.

Aoun ran for the Lebanese parliamentary elections, and his bloc won 21 deputies out of 128 in the Lebanese parliament.

On February 6, 2006, he signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Hizbullah and strongly engaged in the bilateral polarization between the pro-government and opposition blocs.

Aoun's relationship with Syria improved after years of political hostility, and he visited her and met with President Bashar al-Assad on December 3, 2008.

On October 31, Lebanese MPs elected Michel Aoun as President of the Republic, thus becoming the President of the 13th Republic of Lebanon, ending the two-and-a-half-year vacancy of the presidency.

Nabih Berri .. Speaker of the House of Representatives
A Lebanese Shiite political leader, born in Sierra Leone near the diamond mines and lived in Lebanon amid political mines, has been a constant of its post-Taif landscape. He was distinguished by his ability to manage contradictions by coexisting with dozens of governments and retaining the presidency of the House of Representatives several times.

Nabih Berri has been active in the political field since his youth through the student movement. He headed the National Union of Lebanese Students and has participated throughout his studies in many student and political conferences.

In the midst of the transformations witnessed in Lebanon in the 1970s, he emerged alongside Shiite leader Musa al-Sadr in the disadvantaged movement.

He was elected in 1980 as head of the Lebanese Resistance Regiment (Amal) and played a role in the "February 6 uprising against the factional regime" which helped to move the situation towards the Taif Agreement among Lebanese factions.

Since the Taif Agreement, as well as his Amal movement, he has become a key player in Lebanese domestic politics and foreign alliances.

He succeeded since 1992 in retaining his position in the presidency of the Lebanese parliament, and imposed himself a key figure in the political equation.

Saad Hariri: Prime Minister
A Lebanese Sunni businessman and politician, whose father was assassinated and forced to walk through the Lebanese internal minefield and the intersections of regional conflicts, supported the Syrian rebels, commissioned by President Michel Aoun to form a new government, and a year after the premiership announced his resignation from the Saudi capital Riyadh, before retreating later from Resignation.

He was not involved in politics in the life of his father, who was assassinated by the bombing of his motorcade in Beirut on 14 February 2005, which put him in the spotlight to become one of the most important poles of Lebanese politics.

Saad Hariri led the Future Movement and formed the "March 14 bloc", which included political forces, most notably the Future Movement under his leadership, the Progressive Socialist Party, the Phalange Party and the Lebanese Forces.

The "bloc" accused the Syrian government and its allies in Lebanon (March 8 forces) of involvement in the assassination of Hariri, and conducted a series of rallies and demonstrations in what is known - in his literature - "Cedar Revolution", and demanded the departure of Syrian forces from Lebanon and the formation of an international tribunal to try all those involved in the assassination of Hariri .

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In 2005, Hariri was elected as a Member of Parliament and re-elected to the 2009 session of the Parliament. The March 14 Forces managed to obtain a parliamentary majority in both sessions.

On June 27, 2009, Saad Hariri was commissioned by President Michel Suleiman to form a government, but faced many difficulties to announce on September 10, 2009, his apology for not forming a government.

On the 16th of the same month, the President reassigned him to form a government, after a majority of members of the House of Representatives renamed him to head the government through parliamentary consultations, and after tough dialogues and negotiations with various political currents, Hariri was able to announce the formation of his first government on November 9, 2009.

On November 3, 2016, President Michel Aoun commissioned Saad Hariri to form a new government after the support of most deputies and parliamentary blocs, in particular Aoun's Change and Reform bloc.

Saad Hariri, who served as prime minister from 2009 to 2011, returns to the government as part of a compromise deal that led to the election of Aoun as president on October 31, 2016, ending a 29-month gap in the country's first position.

Hariri triggered a political and diplomatic crisis that later developed into a crisis between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia after he announced his resignation on November 4, 2017, in a televised address from the Saudi capital Riyadh broadcast by Saudi media.

On November 22, 2017, he arrived in Lebanon (Lebanon) and announced after a meeting with President Michel Aoun that he would withdraw his resignation after a request from the president, and renewed his call to distance himself from anything that affects the Arab brothers, he said.

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah
A Lebanese Shiite political leader, who has been Hezbollah's secretary-general since 1992, has learned in Lebanon, Iraq and Iran.His leadership has achieved significant successes in resisting Israel, but his involvement in quelling the Syrian revolution has tarnished his reputation and damaged his Arab and Islamic popularity.

During 1982-1989, Nasrallah participated in several organizational missions within the resistance movement launched by Hezbollah, during which he contributed in building cadres, teaching them and preparing them for "resistance and jihad".

In 1989, he traveled to the city of Qom in Iran, where there is the second Shiite religious center, and returned a year later to Lebanon. He believed that the strength of Iranian-Syrian relations would provide Hezbollah with the best conditions for its functioning.

He was chosen by the party in early 1992 to succeed its secretary general, Abbas al-Moussawi, who was assassinated by Israel at the time.In July 1993, the IDF's "settling of account" against Hezbollah was the first experience of Nasrallah as the party's secretary general, reinforcing his position as the spearhead of the Lebanese resistance against the occupation. Israel to Southern Lebanon.

Nasrallah, with his party's victorious exit from the Grapes of Wrath military operation carried out by Israel against him in 1996, has become a symbol of resistance and has become more popular in the Arab and Muslim world.

The party, led by Nasrallah, nicknamed the "Master of the Resistance", liberated much of southern Lebanon from Israeli occupation (except for the uninhabited Shebaa Farms) in May 2000, after a 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon.

In January 2004, Nasrallah was able to record an important success in organizing an operation he personally supervised to swap the bodies of three Israeli soldiers in exchange for the release of some 400 Lebanese and Arab prisoners held in Israeli prisons, as well as the recovery of the bodies of Lebanese and Arabs, including the body of his son Hadi. - They fell into confrontations with the Israelis after long mediation by Germany.

On the Lebanese political scene, there were voices calling for the disarming and handing over of Hezbollah to the Lebanese state, but Nasrallah strongly rejected international pressures embodied in Resolution 1559 (2005), which demanded the withdrawal of Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias, in reference to Hezbollah and Palestinian militias.

The party's shares in the Arab and Islamic circles increased thanks to Nasrallah's speeches, which rise above the approach of military resistance to Israel, and then reinforced this rise with steadfastness and military performance during the Israeli aggression on Lebanon in the 2006 war.

The party's decision to take part in the war in Syria alongside the Syrian regime's forces - despite widespread Lebanese official and political rejection - caused its image within the Arab and Muslim world to decline and the popularity of its secretary-general declined.

Walid Jumblatt .. Chairman of the Progressive Socialist Party
Jumblatt belongs to a long-standing political family that has played a key role in Lebanon's political history and present for decades, especially in the Mount Lebanon region. Many of the Jumblatt princes who took control of Mount Lebanon during the Ottoman rule emerged, including Bashir Jumblatt I and II.

Walid's grandmother, Nadira Jumblatt, played an important role in the French Mandate and the early years of independence and paved the way for his father, leader Kamal Jumblatt, who constituted a milestone in the political life in Lebanon and the region.

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Jumblatt entered the political arena after his father was killed in March 1977, and has been accused on more than one occasion of the Syrian intelligence services of masterminding his assassination.

During the Lebanese civil war, his political positions were marked by several fluctuations. Year 1992.

In 1989, he approved the Taif Accord, joined the then-formed Lebanese government, and remained a member of successive governments as Minister of Displacement until 1998, the day after Emile Lahoud was elected president.

He remained an ally of Syria in the mountain until the death of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and the removal of his ally, former Syrian Chief of Staff Hikmat Shehabi from his job, and began to move away from Damascus.

Supported the Lebanese government headed by former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2000 and allied - during the August legislation of the same year - with anti-Syrian Christian opposition parties.

After Hariri's assassination in 2005, he founded the March 14 Movement with political figures, including Saad Hariri and Samir Geagea, one of the symbols of the Cedars Revolution demanding Syria's withdrawal from Lebanon.

This alliance did not last long, however, as Jumblatt gradually began to shift his political stance towards the Hezbollah-led opposition camp and the Amal movement.

In January 2011, he set out his position on the crisis in Lebanon following the fall of the government of Saad Hariri, and announced his alignment with the March 8 forces to name Najib Mikati as prime minister of Lebanon.

He supported the Syrian revolution (which erupted in 2011) and described the regime of Bashar al-Assad as brutal, and declared that Bashar succeeded in the 2014 presidential elections, on the remains of the tortured, kidnapped and dead, and talked about the betrayal of the Syrian revolution in the West.

He attacked Hezbollah's decision to enter the Syrian war and fight alongside Bashar al-Assad, calling it a historical and moral error.

He said that the decision did not take into account Lebanese public opinion, and that it would have been better for the party to focus on its main enemy, Israel.

Samir Geagea, head of the Lebanese Forces Party
A Lebanese politician and former commander of the Lebanese Forces militia, whose name emerged during the Lebanese civil war in the 1970s and 1980s.

He was imprisoned and then released after the Syrian army left Lebanon, leading the Phalange Party, one of the most prominent currents of the March 14 team, and running in 2014 for the presidency of Lebanon.

In 1975, Geagea joined the Phalange Party militia, which later formed the nucleus of the Lebanese Forces. In 1976, the Phalange Party was an ally of Syria, and the alliance broke down when Syria sided with the Palestinians. The party went to war with Syria in 1977.

In 1989, Geagea announced his acceptance of the Taif Accord, and appointed a cabinet minister to Prime Minister Omar Karami on December 24, 1990, until he resigned and appointed Roger Deeb.

He was arrested in April 1994 after the attack on the Church of Our Lady of Deliverance in Keserwan and 10 people were killed.During this time, the Phalanges Party was dissolved.He was also accused during the trial of involvement in the assassination of DNP chairman Danny Chamoun and his family, and the assassination of former Prime Minister Rashid Karami.

After the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and the outbreak of the so-called Cedar Revolution and the withdrawal of the Syrian army from Lebanon, the Lebanese Parliament voted on 18 July 2005 for his release, and the resolution was implemented on 26 February.

Geagea, known for his harsh criticism of the Syrian presence in Lebanon, founded with Walid Jumblatt and Saad Hariri the March 14 coalition, one of the biggest advocates of Hezbollah's demilitarization, and describes the party as a state within a state.