Rahi Delivers Christmas Message in Aoun’s Absence
Maronite Patriarch Beshara el-Rahi, expressed his dissatisfaction on Friday with the failure of his initiative to accelerate the formation of a rescue government, the National News Agency reported.
Rahi's remarks came during a Christmas mass which was held in the absence of President Michel Aoun over fears of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We were expecting the formation of a salvation government. We were surprised by the conditions and counter-conditions set (by parties) and how the formation is linked to the regional and world conflicts. We therefore found ourselves lacking a constitutional procedural authority in the midst of this collapse,” said Rahi.
The Patriarch added: “If the reasons for not forming the government are internal, then the catastrophe is great because it reveals irresponsibility. And if it’s external, then the calamity is even greater because it exposes loyalty to other than Lebanon. In both cases people feel that change has become an urgent matter to stop the process of national collapse.”
"We had hoped that President Michel Aoun and PM-designate Saad Hariri would form one team above all parties, and that they would be liberated, even temporarily, from all pressures and cooperate by forming a government of non-politicians in order to gain confidence from the people and the world, but our desires collided with unjustified conditions," Rahi added.
In this context, the Patriarch stressed that "the distribution of ministerial portfolios is important, but considering the people's demands is more important…"
Finally, he stressed the need for politicians to be honest with the people, which would benefit those responsible in critical crises.
25 December 2020, 13:07
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The "politicians need to be honest with the people", what a silly statement honesty and politicians are as far apart as the poles. Politicians are similar all over the world but Lebanon's politicians are in a league of their own, greedy dishonest, corrupt and they don't care who knows it. Maybe 2021 will bring the long suffering Lebanese people some relief from these heartless politicians. With warm and loving wishes during this festive season.
25 December 2020, 13:56
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God bless Shia loved and blessed FPM and Aouni Maronite Patriarch Beshara el-Rahi for expressing his dissatisfaction with the failure of his initiative to accelerate the formation of a rescue government.
It is time our Shia resistance took matters into its own hands and formed a resisting government that will liberate the gulf countries from their dictatorships, improved the economy by going East, and issued new digital currency such as the mahdicoin to replace the American dollar.
“منشان الله يا سيد يالا”
Shea Shia Shea !!!
"شيعة، شيعة، شيعة”
26 December 2020, 10:01
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"a disease has symptoms, for Lebanon the regional conflicts are the symptoms of the disease and the disease is tribe mentality, you see it in politics ( raison d'être of the feudal system), you also read it here in the comments of the readers of naharnet, "the rights of": muslim community, Christians, Druze, Jews etc .. " sad in itself, some readers of Naharnet are not stupid people, but they are educated and conditioned in the tribal culture, sad that they don't realize that their mindset, focuses on the symptoms and not the disease. Religion is private matter, religion in politics = no hope for Lebanon."
