Once Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Hassan Diab announced the names of the government’s 20-member cabinet, the “# government of failure” branded social media, protesters protested in Beirut and several cities last night, and described the new group as a “political quota government”.
The activists commented on the hashtag, expressing their rejection of the new government, and wrote through their accounts on the media that this government will not receive any international support or trust, and expressed their concern that the government of the "last episode" will go to a new civil war.
The protesters demanded an independent government of specialists in a country suffering the worst economic crisis, and this government left the government of Saad Hariri, who resigned after the recent protests demanding his departure.
Activist Wael Yaman took the government - in a tweet on Twitter - as representing one political line.
I mean, losing everything that has happened and everything the country has incurred after a revolution or uprising that has nearly 100 days, mobility, and popular demands on all of Lebanese territory until the other. ... حكومة # Failure Government - Wael Yaman (@WaelYaman) January 21, 2020 |
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Lujain Borgeli describes in a tweet on Twitter that the government is quotas and that those responsible for it are wrong:
After them, thinkers that the initiative is in their hands and that they have formed quotas, quotas, looting and corruption, as if nothing had happened since October 17 of the day. |
Activist Alfon Ghosn comments on Twitter, saying:
#Government_failure |
But Ali Raslan calls for giving this government a chance, saying failure may be a path to success.
We have tried the governments of work, creativity, activity and achievements. # Hariri for 30 years, I mean, we were tired of it, so let us try # government_ failure ... |
As for Nazih Abu Murad, he expressed his fear that this government will be the last link before chaos erupts in the country.
Summary of the published names: 1- A government that is paralyzed from taking any decision without consulting those who called it. 2- It will not receive any international support or trust. 3- Fear of such a government being the last episode of reigniting chaos or civil war # his government_ failure - Nazih Abou Mrad (@MradNazih) January 21, 2020 |
Saeed Kabbah is threatening his tweet with the government, saying: We did not lose Hussein Al-Attar, Alaa, Omar, Ayman and Mahmoud's eyes, and all the wounds to accept a government that was formed and headed by Basil.
We did not lose Hussein Al-Attar, Alaa and Omar, the eyes of Ayman and Mahmoud, and all the wounds to accept a government he formed and he will be chaired by Basil. |
Hezbollah’s Iranian weapon is the one that makes up the government. Whoever says otherwise is a liar! - Muhammad Majeed Al-Ahwaz (@MohamadAhwaze) <a href = "https://twitter.com/MohamadAhwaze/status/1219697786561667074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"> January 21, 2020 |
However, Diab said - at a press conference after presenting the government formation to President Michel Aoun in the Baabda Palace in the capital Beirut - that the new government structure is composed of specialists and qualified people and is not affected by political whims, adding that he set specific criteria for the government work team.
It is noteworthy that Zina Aker was assigned to the Ministry of Defense, Major General Mohamed Fahmy (Interior), Nasif Hatti (Foreign) and Ghazi Wazni (Finance). The government includes six women for the first time in the country's history.
Reuters news agency quoted analysts as saying that Hezbollah's role in forming the government might make it struggle to persuade countries to provide Lebanon with the financial support it desperately needs.
Heavily indebted Lebanon lacks an effective government since Hariri's resignation last October under pressure from popular protests.