Gemayel: Some Sides Pushing Lebanon to Suicide through ‘Emptying’ State Institutions
The former chief of the Kataeb Party Amin Gemayel accused Hizbullah and its ally the Free Patriotic Movement of crippling the functioning of the government through their tactics, saying that the paralysis of the state ends with an initiative on their part, reported the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat on Sunday.
He told the daily: “Some sides are pushing the country towards suicide through their efforts to empty state institutions.”
“Given their insistence to obstruct government work, after imposing a vacuum in the presidency, the cabinet is practically resigned because it is no longer able to take any decision,” he remarked.
“We are passing through extraordinary circumstances that obligate ministers to perform their duties and to take extraordinary measures to revitalize state functioning,” Gemayel said.
“We are unfortunately witnessing excessive acts that are pushing us towards fatal vacuum,” he noted.
“Mistaken are those who believe that the vacuum will push us to change the current system,” he added.
“Such measures require the minimum amount of consensus that is completely missing over minor issues at the moment, so how can it be reached over major national ones?” he wondered to Asharq al-Awsat.
Lebanon has been without a president since May 2014 when the term of Michel Suleiman ended without the election of a successor.
Hizbullah’s Loyalty to the Resistance and MP Michel Aoun’s Change and Reform blocs have been boycotting presidential elections session over a dispute with other political parties on a compromise candidate.
The Change and Reform bloc’s insistence to address the government’s decision-making mechanism during cabinet sessions has led to the obstruction of its ability to address other pressing issues.
M.T.
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