Thousands of Lebanese demonstrated outside the presidential palace in Baabda on Sunday in support of President Michel Aoun after protests called for the overthrow of the elite and led to the resignation of the government. Hundreds gathered in Beirut's Riad El Solh Square to demand political reforms. One unit. "
A long line of cars stretched out on a major highway on Sunday and crowds of protesters marched to Baabda Palace, while some raised Aoun's image and waved orange flags of the Lebanese president's Free Patriotic Movement.
On the sidelines of the first demonstration, Lebanese President Michel Aoun said that the Lebanese people have lost their confidence in their country, stressing the need to work to restore this confidence.
He said in a speech addressed to thousands of supporters who rallied near the presidential palace that there is a road map developed to address three files; namely corruption, the economy and the civil state.
Aoun pointed out that the achievement of these points is not easy, and called for unity and vowed to fight corruption and improve the economy and build a civil state, and warned of the situation turned into an arena against the arena and a demonstration against another demonstration, saying that corruption is rooted for decades.
Distortion campaigns
Like Aoun, the foreign minister of the Lebanese caretaker government and the head of the Free Patriotic Movement, Gibran Bassil, called for the unification of the demonstrations as well.
Speaking in front of the crowd, Bassil said, criticizing the protesters' movements, "Instead of blocking the roads, let us stop the MP who refuses to pass these laws, the politician who escapes accountability and the judge who does not want to be held accountable."
He said that his movement is subjected to campaigns aimed at toppling the Covenant and the political party, stressing that his party can not be canceled.
He stressed that the slogan "Kell means Kellen", which is called by the demonstrators should be accountable and not injustice.
He warned that there are difficult days waiting for the country, and that the priority today is to delay the collapse, not accelerate it. Demonstrators demand not to accuse everyone of corruption because it does not enable to hold anyone accountable, and corrupt impunity.
He said it was unfair to be wronged twice: once a symbol of corruption and once a victim of corruption. He added: We entered the state and fought against corruption and we were alone as usual.
The first box
In response to the speeches, the head of the Progressive Socialist Party in Lebanon, Walid Jumblatt, said that the situation has returned to square one with empty populist talk going back 30 years, stressing that the popular movement has brought down most of the political class.
He added, in a tweet on Twitter, that at the height of the political crisis facing the country, and its economic and social consequences and after the popular movement toppled most of the political class, if not all come from the fall of the Constitution under the slogan of authorship and then commissioned for the interests of tyranny of a person and a political current absurd.