Rahi: Trash Protesters Must Pour Demands in Electing a President
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi voiced calls on the protesters demanding a solution to the trash crisis to pour their efforts in calling for election of a president.
“Put right your demands and pour your efforts into one major request which is electing a president as soon as possible,” said al-Rahi from Aley where he is on a three-day visit to the region.
He hailed the efforts of Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb and the plan he set to solve the trash crisis saying: “We thank Shehayyeb for the road map he set as a solution to the problem, and we hope that it paves way for decentralization.”
Lebanon has been swept by a series of demonstrations since July, after the closure of the Naameh landfill, protesting a waste management crisis that drowned the country in garbage and left the atmospheres of the once Switzerland of the Levant country air-filled with foul odor of rotting waste.
The government approved in a marathon session late Wednesday a waste management plan proposed by Shehayyeb.
Lebanon has been without a president since May 2014 when the term of Michel Suleiman ended without the election of a successor.
Ongoing disputes between the rival March 8 and 14 camps over a compromise presidential candidate have thwarted the polls.
Source: Naharnet
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