Al-Rahi Slams 'Unilateral Will' that is 'Paralyzing Institutions'

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Friday lashed out at the parties that are imposing their “unilateral will” on state institutions to the extent of “confining and paralyzing” them.

“We demand the restoration of our democratic system, because we have been living for years in a state of disorder,” al-Rahi said in his Christmas message.

He also called for “recovering our state, because we are living outside its boundaries and it is living outside its legitimacy, constitution and National Pact.”

The patriarch also reiterated that “the only gateway for salvation and rescue would be declaring Lebanon’s positive and active neutrality, in line with the National Pact that rejects turning Lebanon into a place or passageway for any foreign presence.”