SAWT BEIRUT INTERNATIONAL

| 14 May 2024, Tuesday |

No parliament session this week

President Nabih Berri is preparing to enter his seventh term as Speaker of the House of Representatives in the absence of any competitor, especially since the Shiite parliamentary representation is limited to the Amal and Hezbollah duo, which was recommended by his bloc, as Hezbollah announced its support for him, and the excellent Jaafari Mufti announced the Sheikh Ahmed Kabalan, in the form of the decision, is for us alone: ​​”Berry is the new head of the council and a point of line.”

The session of electing the president, the vice president, and the parliament bureau, Berri is scheduled to call for it, as he is the president of the age, but according to what we know, he will not send the invitation this week, pending the completion of his contacts to secure a minimum level of consensus on his name with the rest of the forces, and therefore the first session of the House of Representatives will not It will be before next week, within the 15-day period specified in the constitution.

The white paper will be the candidate of the new majority forces, and its number, according to the information, will be large, in a direct reflection of the new balance within the parliament, in return for Berri’s vote percentage, which will be the lowest since he assumed the presidency of the parliament until today, and may not exceed 65 deputies, of course, this depends on the position of all the change forces in addition to the The fact of the position of the Free Patriotic Movement bloc became clear.

While parliamentary sources revealed that vigorous contacts are taking place between all the sovereign and change forces to coordinate the situation regarding the eligibility for the presidency of the Council and the Vice-President, it was learned that there is some discussion behind the scenes in an orthodox name of the new change deputies from outside the three names presented so far, i.e. Elias Bou Saab, Melhem Khalaf and Ghassan Hasbani

Note that the Lebanese Forces sources confirm that they will not have their own candidate, meaning that they are not committed to Hasbani’s candidacy. Rather, they will agree with all the change and sovereign forces on a name for the position of Vice President, but within the sovereign conditions that Geagea demanded that any candidate for the Vice Presidency of the Council abide by.

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