Report: Al-Rahi to Launch Initiative to 'Salvage Lebanon'
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi is expected to launch an initiative to stop the growing political crisis from spiraling out of control, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.
Al-Rahi is scheduled to return to the seat of the Maronite church in Bkirki from his summer residence in Diman after canceling a trip abroad, said the newspaper.
It expected the patriarch to ask Maronite leaders to agree on the election of a president during a summit in Bkirki.
Al-Rahi will seek to urge them to assume their patriotic responsibilities because he believes that the political crisis is the result of the vacuum in the country's top Christian post, said the report.
According to al-Joumhouria, al-Rahi will hold contacts with top Lebanese officials, whom he also blames for the Baabda vacuum.
Bishop Boulos Sayah told the daily that “Bkirki does not stand idle and will do all it can to salvage Lebanon.”
The country has been without a president for more than a year, despite nearly 30 attempts by parliament to pick a new one.
Parliament is not functioning because some lawmakers insist on electing a president first.
The disputes between the rival parties have also caused paralysis in the government.
G.K.
D.A.
25 August 2015, 08:08
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I wonder where you are and how you are dear flamethrower as you lay in pieces and total tranquility at your final resting place.... RIP Shia Hero
25 August 2015, 08:08
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Dear Mr. Al Rahi
Do you know if mowaten has more than 60 aliases?
Do you know if southern ever went to school?
Do you know if flamethrower ever returned home?
25 August 2015, 08:16
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SOS.... In Dangerous......SOS.....
safe the cristhians in levant from daesh geagea of the mecca jews
iu the vatican party in lebanon send militar to help
I have afraid
25 August 2015, 08:52
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Initiative 1 : excommunicate the caporal
Initiative 2 : excommunicate the caporal
Initiative 3 : excommunicate the caporal
25 August 2015, 09:02
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Dear Batrak
Here are 4 good candidates for presidency:
1 - Neemat Frem
2 - Ziad Baroud
3 - Samir Frangieh
4 - Jean Qahwaji
25 August 2015, 10:38
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May God help you Patriarch Rahi. We have the most dirty, filthy, corrupt, thiefs and low low politicians on earth.
25 August 2015, 11:22
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yes we know you are an atheist supporter of the Islamic Resistance
God protect you from all evil
well said
25 August 2015, 13:50
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The diffamation technique which Ebola and FPM use is created by the Mollahs and uses Takhrib (attacking opponents instead of answering their arguments) and Siahkari to defame someone (zionist, takfiri, saudi, wahhabi, da3ishi...).
This diffamation technique is revealed openly by Amir Taheri an iranian journalist. It is a proof that those who use it are under iranian command
25 August 2015, 16:37
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Since there doesn't seem to be a chance for the caporal to become president, do you think he will shut up if they made him patriarch instead?
