Media concentration affects democracy says Atilio Boron

They call on Lebanon to bridge political divisions and end up empty handed

The Coordinating Committee stressed that the vacancy of the President is negatively contributing to the deepening of the crisis that citizens are suffering from the lack of an effective government capable of pushing ahead with reconstruction reforms.

In a statement, the left-wing collective called on all parties to speed up the election of the new head of state of the republic, far from political rivalries over personal details or factions.

In this regard, the nationalists insisted on the need for serious dialogue in order to get out of the vacancy in the presidency and alleviate the suffering of the people.

The Assembly considered that where there was more than one candidate for the office of Representative there was no longer any justification for overriding the quorum in Parliament sessions.

Referring to the economic scenario, he denounced the severity of the collapse as a result of decades of wrong policies and the unfair US blockade, which forbids Arab and friendly countries from providing aid, especially in the fields of electricity, gas and oil. Fuel.

Faced with Israeli aggression against the peoples of the region, the Lebanese national parties, forces and personalities reiterated the importance of countering it with all forms of resistance.

On that occasion they condemned the repeated attacks on the Palestinians in the various occupied territories and stressed the legitimate right and the spirit of struggle until the liberation of their country.

They also dismissed Tel Aviv’s recent criminal crackdown on Aleppo Airport, considered the main border crossing for humanitarian aid into Syria after the devastating February 6 earthquake.

In this sense, they called on the international institutions to break the silence and condemn the violent and racist hostility of the enemy.

Faced with constant violations of Lebanese sovereignty, the Coordinating Committee hailed the importance of the deterrence equation, army, people and resistance, in protecting the nation from Israeli ambitions.

They reiterated their support for resistance as a means of using violence against the enemy, and saluted the fighting movements in Lebanon and Palestine and the free peoples of the region who do not recognize Tel Aviv.

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