Acting Prime Minister Saad Hariri met with President Michel Aoun at Baabda Palace yesterday and said after the meeting that he would continue talks with the Lebanese President and other parties. As the unprecedented popular movement in Lebanon entered its fourth week, thousands of students took to the streets for the second day in a row, in different parts of the country, to join their voices in favor of the departure of the political class.
After meeting with Aoun, Hariri said in a brief speech: "We will complete consultations with the other parties." "I have come to speak with His Excellency the President, and we are consulting, and we will complete consultations with other parties, but I do not want to tell too much, this is the only thing," he said. What I want to say ».
The Lebanese presidency announced earlier yesterday, in a tweet on its account on the «Twitter» that contacts are continuing, in preparation for the date of parliamentary consultations binding to nominate the head of the new government, while the parliament speaker, Nabih Berri, talked about crucial hours.
As the movement entered its fourth week, hundreds of students rallied yesterday in front of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Beirut, raising Lebanese flags and demanding a better future, an AFP journalist reported. "No study, no teaching until the president falls," read placards, and on the other, "What if we had a young, educated, clean and competent political team?"
"All of them mean all thieves," a girl carrying one of her comrades on his shoulders shouted through a loudspeaker in front of the ministry, referring to all the governing officials.
"We don't have jobs in the country when we study our goal is always to go abroad," said 17-year-old baccalaureate student Teresa. "Our goal should be to develop the country, work in it, and improve our economy."
"People are unable to pay them. People are dying of hunger for their children," she said.
Other students organized several demonstrations and marches throughout Lebanon, especially in Ashrafieh in the east of the capital, Jounieh in the north of the capital, Chekka and Tripoli in the north, Sidon and Nabatieh in the south and Baalbek in the east. The students moved from school to school, carrying their school bags on their backs, wrapping their shoulders with the Lebanese flag.
Students gathered in different areas in front of banks, schools, universities and public facilities.
A number of protesters also gathered in front of the House of Representatives, in the framework of moves to close government facilities, demanding the dissolution of the current Council in preparation for the election of a new Council.
In Tripoli, the largest city in the north, where the momentum of movement has not diminished since its inception, hundreds of people gathered in the square of light, raising Lebanese flags, and chanted many slogans, including «revolution towards change, a revolution on corruption, a revolution against the rulers, a revolution against the regime».
"Here we learn things more important than those we learn in school, we learn how to build our homeland," said Nour Shukrallah, a student in the baccalaureate class. In the predominantly Sunni city, dozens of people gathered in front of several banks and Ogero to block employees from entering.