The head of the National Movement in Lebanon, Gebran Bassil, called for the acceleration of the formation of a new government that would be effective, productive and reformist, calling for a new national contract based on a civil and decentralized state. While the Maronite Patriarch Bechara Al-Rai considered that Lebanon faces the greatest dangers.
Bassil indicated that what is required of them as a movement is to participate in the external and internal blockade not only against a party group called Hezbollah, but on an entire Lebanese component. He added that he is ready to bear the price of the sanctions they are waving against him for the sake of Lebanon's unity and civil peace.
He called for a new national contract "based on the idea of bringing together everything we have in common" through a decentralized civil state.
Bassil said, in a press conference, "The development of the system is through the constitution and not by jumping over it. We previously said that Taif was imposed on us by force, but we will not accept its development without understanding."
Agreement and prospects
The Taif Agreement is the national accord document drawn up between the parties to the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) in the Saudi city of Taif, which formed the principle of coexistence between different sects and their political representation.
The Taif Agreement of 1989, which ended the Lebanese civil war, enshrined the power-sharing formula based on quotas that divide the main positions between the three main components: Christians, Sunnis and Shiites.
With regard to the Beirut port bombing, Bassil said that his party is relying on firstly on the security and judicial agencies to carry out their work quickly, transparently and effectively with the help of all the experts willing and able from outside.
On August 4, the capital spent a bloody night, as a result of a huge explosion in the Beirut port, which left 178 dead, more than 6 thousand wounded, and hundreds missing, in addition to massive material damage and losses estimated at $ 15 billion, according to unlimited official figures.
The blast prompted Hassan Diab's government to resign, to be tasked with running the business of the country in a state of emergency.
The explosion of Beirut adds to the pain of a country that has been suffering, for months, the repercussions of a harsh economic crisis and severe political polarization, in a scene where regional and international parties overlap.
Decline and invite
For his part, the head of the Lebanese Forces Party, Samir Geagea, said that forming a government of independents is the hope to accomplish something mentioned in Lebanon. After his meeting with the Maronite Patriarch Bechara Al-Rai, he announced that his party refused to form a polar government or national unity.
As for the Maronite Patriarch, he called for early parliamentary elections and the formation of a rescue government in place of the ruling "political class".
"Lebanon today faces the greatest dangers. We will not allow it to be a compromise card between countries that want to restore relations between them, at the expense of the pain of the Lebanese people," Al-Rahi said in the Sunday sermon.
Al-Rahi has influence in Lebanon in his capacity as the Maronite Patriarch, where the President of the Republic is chosen from among the Maronite community according to the power-sharing system in force in the country.