Berri: Absence of State Encouraged Public Property Violations
Speaker Nabih Berri said Wednesday that he was the first to ask for holding accountable those responsible of public property violations and restraining all illegal building on those properties.
MPs quoted Berri as saying after his weekly meeting with lawmakers that “the absence of the state, and the incapability of security forces to carry out their tasks and responsibilities encouraged people” to go ahead with the violations.
“Berri didn’t discuss the cabinet formation process but excluded holding funeral prayers over the government,” the MPs said.
Beirut media quoted Berri as expressing his pessimism over the government formation crisis, saying that he feels "hopeless and miserable."
"When politics becomes impossible to understand, this means the country is in recession," Berri reportedly told a visiting delegation on Tuesday.
He considered that after the March 14 forces rejected to be part of a national unity government, the obstruction of the government formation by the March 8 forces for more than two months is incomprehensible anymore.
"What matters now is not to hold funeral prayers (for the cabinet)," he said, remarking that the government crisis is "ridiculous."
An Nahar newspaper reported on Wednesday that the efforts carried out by Berri's aide Ali Hasan Khalil and Hussein Khalil, the Hizbullah chief's adviser, to solve the crisis are no longer based on a road map.
Their mediation has reached a dead end. "This is what made the speaker express his pessimism," Berri's circles told the daily.
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