Al-Rahi Says No Forensic Audit before Govt. Formation

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Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday warned against selectivity and bias in the issue of conducting a forensic audit of the central bank’s accounts, days after President Michel Aoun urged the Lebanese to support him in what he called the forensic audit battle.

“The call for a forensic audit would be serious if it is comprehensive, not intentionally selective. And in the first place, there can be no forensic audit before the formation of the government,” al-Rahi said in his Sunday Mass sermon.

He accordingly called on all those forming the government to “stop this obstruction through the fabrication of National Pact norms, constitutional interpretations, imaginary powers and absurd conditions to cover up for the main obstacle, which is that some have offered Lebanon as a hostage in the regional-international conflict.”

He added: “But what we fear is that the intention from the blocking of the government might be to prevent the arrival of aid to rescue the people from the financial collapse. Some want the situation to get worse so that the people starve and get more impoverished, which would push them to despair, emigrate, bow or accept any settlement.”

This would facilitate “the domination of the people and the state,” al-Rahi warned.

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Comments 3
Missing sioufi 11 April 2021, 15:24

al-Rahi calling Aoun and the FM out on their hypocrisy.

Default-user-icon hanna (Guest) 11 April 2021, 17:06

It is about time, though he gave them cover for a long time

Missing kazan 11 April 2021, 17:30

The constitution is made to ensure continuity of the feudal system, it is a vicious circle and it works as follows: the MP's are supposed to work for the people ? no that is a side show, the reality is that their existance depend on the feudal chief; they are supposed to control the government? no again a side show, the ministers are nominated by the feudal chief.What about the religious leaders? haha these are the ones who steal the show , they talk the language of the people but their objective is to please the feudal chief. Any hope for change? sadly I don't think so, the people still think in terms of : the rights of the Druze/Christians/Muslims/Jews....Martin Luther king would say I have a dream, one day all the Lebanese will be Atheists ,Then they will be united, and Lebanon becomes a nation.