Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has set next Tuesday as a date for the session to elect the speaker, his deputy, and the bureau.
A session that Nejmeh Square has not witnessed since Berri assumed the presidency of the Council in 1992, after the results of the elections came in contrast to what Berri’s winds wanted.

As for the parliamentary blocs that will abstain from voting for Berri, they are distributed as follows:

– The strong Republic bloc has 19 deputies, in addition to Major General Ashraf Rifi
– The Free Patriotic Movement has 18 deputies
– The “October 17” deputies have 13 deputies
– The Lebanese Kataeb has 4 deputies
– As for the independent representatives, i.e. Michel Moawad Adib Abdel Masih, Michel Daher
– Fouad Makhzoumi, Osama Saad, Abdel Rahman Al-Bizri, Charbel Massad, and Farid Al-Khazen, so they also will not vote for Berri

A total of 63 deputies.

As for the blocs that will re-elect Berri for a sixth term, they are:

– The Development and Liberation Bloc, 15 deputies
– Loyalty to the Resistance, 15 MPs
– Tashnaq, 3 deputies
– Akkar Development Representatives, 4 votes
– Democratic Gathering, 8 MPs
-In addition to Michel Murr, Tony Franhia and Hassan Mourad

They have a total of 48 deputies.

This means that if we compare the number of votes Berri received in 2018, which amounted to 98, it will be clear that the Speaker of the Council lost more than half of the votes in 2022.

As for the position of Deputy Speaker of Parliament, for which the Orthodox deputies are competing, it has not yet been decided. So next week Lebanon will witness a session that it has not witnessed in its new political history, in the hope that the subsequent constitutional requirements will be accomplished through the formation of the government and the election of a President of the Republic on the specified dates.