Aoun Meets Berri at Baabda Palace
Speaker Nabih Berri visited President Michel Aoun at the Presidential Palace in Baabda to deliberate an outcome for a new dispute arising in the country over referring a deadly incident in the Aley town of Qabrshmoun to the Judicial Council.
Berri met with Aoun and left without making a statement. He said joking: “I am here to say Good Morning to the President.”
LBCI reporter from Baabda, said the Speaker is keen on finding a solution for the matter and that besides his meeting with Aoun, he has been convening with other officials and political parties at his residence in Ain el-Tineh for the same goal.
She said the issue will be discussed thoroughly with Prime Minister Saad Hariri after he returns from a short trip abroad.
08 July 2019, 17:08
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I was told by a young "white" diplomat from South Africa in the early 1980's that "the next generation" would see a whole new political situation. When did the South African president or someone let Mandela out of prison, probably on the express plan of installing him as a "black" leader of a post-Apartheid state? Not too many years later, a half dozen. In Lebanon's case, it's the question of the next generation of warlords. I note the way the other Naharnet article today describes the ambush in Qabrshmoun: a clash broke out between bodyguards and a group of people who had blocked the road. They evidently covered their mine field with fire, as doctrine dictates, to prevent enemy tampering. I suspect even Hezbullah has its warlord problem, preventing its getting into civil political organization aimed at Article 24 of the Constitution, so Shia politics in general are in now-not-so-covert turmoil.
08 July 2019, 17:13
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Sorry, I was thinking the Qabrshmoun convoy was Shia, but it was non-Jumblatt-Druze. Must keep my scorecard accurate. I remember tracking wars in Bosnia and Zaire in my atlas of maps, town by town, and realizing years later that I had had no idea what was happening or why. All I know about Lebanon is that it has no government and that Article 24 explains why: half of parliament goes to Christians.
