Turkey and the Arab world, new winds

Posted in: 03/10/2021 – 11:51

Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper: Lebanon faces more dangerous and dangerous developments

We read in the editorial of Al-Quds Al-Arabi that Lebanon is gradually withdrawing from the list of global concerns due to the concern of regional and international powers with other more urgent issues, and it is enough in this regard that the impossibility of forming a government, including the absence of a budget in 2021, is the first indicator which is not absent from the specifications of the authorities The donor or the IMF before approving any support to the country.

The newspaper adds that the number of demonstrators, their geographical distribution and the manifestations of their expression represented by cuts of roads and burning tires, are not identical to the methods of the uprising of autumn 2019, as well as to the slogans of the current demonstrations indicating that they also involve a partisan approach and liquidations of calculation between political forces and organizations. However, these and other elements do not obscure the most important real essence, namely the social, living and economic conditions of the country, and the complacency of politicians, regardless of their positions in the presidency, in government. and in parliament.

Turkey and the Arab world … new winds

Arib Al-Rantawi wrote in the Jordanian newspaper Al-Dustour that since Cairo has adopted a new approach in Libya, and has sent a high-level political security delegation to Tripoli, in the West, and its foreign minister s’ is in talks with his Libyan counterpart, promising to resume the work of embassies and airlines, it seemed that a new page had opened. Or she is about to open up between Cairo and Ankara, adding that the flirtatious messages exchanged are from Ankara, Cairo and Riyadh, and similar messages will inevitably follow other Arab capitals, if things turn out. go well.

According to the newspaper, just as Libya was the gateway to Egypt, to inaugurate an open and hidden “dialogue” with Turkey, the reconciliation of the Gulf has made Qatar this gateway to Saudi Arabia. . In a climate of constant improvement in Saudi-Qatari relations, it goes without saying that relations between Turkey and the Kingdom are candidates for a phase of calm, and Qatar could play a role in this regard.

Algeria … thinks of the presidential government

Othman Lahyani wrote in the Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper: “Nobody prevents the Algerian president from creating a party or a coalition which suspends the writer, the constitution allows it and the policy dictates.” But what is troubling in this case is the political fraud, diverting the tributaries of civil society from their fundamental function of civil institutions in the service of society in the service of power, and undermining the independence of civil society vis-à-vis -to the chain of government, and inserting it into support and functional support to the president and the government

It is no longer a secret that the political authority in Algeria is looking beyond the next legislative elections, the writer comments and reflects very early on the question of the presidential government and the way in which it and its parties are formed , and seeks to ensure the greatest number of blocks support it. In other words, it is not ready to allow the transfer of government formation and administration to opposition forces or to forces that are at least not guaranteed to them. It is clear that power is shifting from leadership with large blocs, as was the case in previous parliaments since the 1997 elections, to ruling in the next parliament with the small groups and blocs as power. contains in an enlarged presidential election. Alliance. It is a new entry to dilute the scene and circumvent the democratic claim.