The unicameral MP will focus his first sessions on appointing the head of the entity and, in agreement with the nation’s president, will appoint a Sunni figure to head the next government.
In accordance with the national pact for independence from France in 1943, Lebanon stipulated that the president of the republic must be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Sunni Muslim and the head of the Shia parliament, and so on with the other positions.
In this sense, the leader of the Amal movement, Nabih Berri, appears as a strong candidate to win the parliamentarian vote for the seventh time since 1992. The 84-year-old Berri won the support of the Development and Liberation Bloc president of the legislature and together with their ally Hezbollah (Party of God) they won 31 seats in elections to ratify Shia rule in the nation.
At the last Council of Ministers before moving into the transition phase, Prime Minister Najib Maqati stressed to MPs that any delay in the legislative plan will be costly for the country, which today is impoverishing four out of five Lebanese, according to the United Nations.
Nabil Qaouk, a member of Hezbollah’s Central Council, reiterated the national and moral priority of saving Lebanon from economic and financial collapse.
The leader of the Lebanese Islamic Resistance condemned the opposition’s attempts to incite fighting and civil war while Hezbollah and its allies try to push ahead with reconstruction.
He condemned US interference in the general election process by fomenting campaigns against the Resistance and its candidates.
About 41 percent of the nearly four million Lebanese on the electoral rolls exercised their constitutional right to appoint the unicameral parliaments, which are evenly split between Christians and Muslims in Lebanon, on Sunday, May 15.
According to Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and poverty, the nation on the Mediterranean coast is facing the worst crisis in its modern history due to impunity, corruption and structural inequality in the political and economic system. human rights.
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