Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Thursday renewed his call for the demonstrators to dialogue, saying that the political "contradictions" have delayed the formation of a new government, satisfying the aspirations of the disgruntled street on the political class and demands for its departure.
"I reiterate my call here to the demonstrators for a closer look at their actual demands and ways to implement them, because dialogue alone is the right way to resolve crises," Aoun said in a message to the Lebanese on the eve of Lebanon's 76th anniversary of independence.
The Lebanese president said that compromises prepared for the region threaten the stability and existence of all.
Aoun added that corruption in Lebanon threatens the country's economy and other institutions.
He called on the judges to do their duty and fight corruption. "I will be a steel roof to protect the judiciary."
"Let us make this year the de facto independence law to establish a civil state," the Lebanese president said, noting that the speech on the street has escaped one of the biggest dangers to Lebanon.
"76 years have passed since Lebanon became an independent homeland and went through difficult stages in which to endanger independence. Independence is a free national decision that is not subject to any form of trusteeship, whether explicit or convincing, and this is what we are clinging to today at all costs."
He continued «our emphasis on the independence of Lebanon does not mean antagonism or antagonism to anyone, based on our free decision and the relationship of peer to peer and accept what suits our country, if politics is the art of the possible it is also unacceptable rejection».
He pointed out that «deals and settlements that are prepared for our region, and attempts to impose them, threaten not only the independence of the countries concerned, but also its existence and existence. It is not only international settlements that threaten the stability of states. Inside Lebanon there is a grave danger to our society, our institutions and our economy is corruption. ”
Aoun acknowledged in his letter that the government "was supposed to have been born and started its work", but addressed to the Lebanese saying that "the contradictions that govern Lebanese policy have forced the careful to avoid the most dangerous and also to reach a government that meets as many of your ambitions and aspirations, be a great deal of Efficiency, productivity and regularity ».
The Lebanese president acknowledged that the recent moves “have broken some previous taboos and to some extent brought down the protectorates and pushed the judiciary to act” against the backdrop of corruption files demanding that the protesters be held accountable.
Lebanon commemorates independence on Friday, while the traditional military parade is absent from the center of Beirut, as usual, and is replaced by a defense ministry offer attended by the three presidents. Aoun canceled the formal reception of a protocol at the presidential palace immediately after the military parade.