Lebanon waiting at the starting point … The Council of Ministers is a necessity

Under the title "Attempts to overcome the obstacles of Lebanese government meetings", wrote Mohammed Choucair in the newspaper "Middle East", stating: After the adoption of the Lebanese budget for the second half of this year, nothing does not justify the expulsion of Cabinet meetings by putting in place obstacles and justification by linking their fate with an incident Shimmon's grave at the Judicial Council. According to well-informed ministerial sources, it is badumed that the consultations that will be conducted by President Michel Aoun in solidarity with Prime Minister Saad Hariri will reactivate the work of the government, which will remain paperless and will not be devoted to the finalization of preparations . This puts Lebanon on the path to benefit from the decisions of the "Cedar Conference"

Asharq Al-Awsat learned from ministerial sources that Prime Minister Hariri was inevitably inclined to convene a meeting of the Council of Ministers in consultation with President Aoun, to be held this week. The sources said that Prime Minister Hariri, while avoiding the involvement of the Cabinet in a political conflict in the event of an agreement on the way forward in the direction of an agreement on a political settlement to remove the incident from Shammon's grave of political wrangles and to record the registration of positions in it and to neutralize the agenda of the ministerial session ; Burning, threatening to resume the activation of government action, refuses in turn to put the fate of meetings on the waiting list.

The ministerial sources asked whether the extension of the meetings could be delayed and how the reaction of the international community, which gave all it had to do to help Lebanon to improve its economic and financial crises through the Seder Conference, asked if it was reasonable for the government to remain a victim of disruption. In light of the acceleration of security and political developments in the region and the negative repercussions on the internal situation, what will be the reaction of President Aoun and Prime Minister Hariri? Do they decide to give in to attempts to paralyze the government's capacity and to block efforts to approve the budget to move Lebanon from the waiting phase to a new stage to activate the government? Entering the rescue process today before tomorrow so as not to miss the opportunity created by the Cedar Conference,?

And confirmed that the adoption of the budget had been adopted by a segment that almost threatened to see the light, but the contacts that took place on the sidelines of the last session of parliament, which needed to be ratified, specifically between the Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri and the Saad Hariri government, helped to absorb the dispute and lay siege to it. She said that some members of Parliament had tried to deal with the elements contained in the budget from the angle of her recourse to the registration of a position, even by points on Hariri, who had resisted these attempts and wanted to reduce the budgets of the departments directly concerned.

The sources revealed that some had resorted to such attempts in search of a role but were failing to register a point likely to bounce back on the prime minister, all the more so as his attempts to cut those budgets went beyond the time of spending to withhold the funds allocated to them, and circled to prepare for the crisis of these ministries institutions and their functions.

In this context, ministerial sources stated that the adoption of the budget was a step towards administrative and financial reform aimed at reducing the proposed budget deficit, especially as everyone will be subject to international responsibility in the event that the budget does not start in 2020 in the current budget ahead the expected budget in the form Invites the participants in the cedar conference to be satisfied with Lebanon's response to all its commitments vis-à-vis with respect to both conferences. Not to mention that the government is required to develop a plan to save the electricity sector from the high financial costs borne by the Treasury, which requires the rapid establishment of power generation plants. electricity that can replace the rental of vessels for this purpose.

The government is also required to increase the level of investment spending at the expense of current spending because it is a necessary step to create new jobs. The question remains: will the cabinet meet this week and what will be the reaction of the chairman of the Lebanese Democratic Party, MP Talal Arslan, if he wants to tie his meeting to the return of the incident of the tomb of Shomron at the Council of Justice? Hezbollah, which voted for the budget for the first time since entering parliament in 1992, insists on its support, while President Aoun bets that the director he introduced will lead to a split between the meeting and the incident of Shammon's Tomb?