MP Ghassan Skaf considered in a radio interview today that “the French envoy, Jean-Yves Le Drian, may have failed in his mission before it began, through the message that was sent to the parliamentary blocs, because he did not work according to the rule of neither victorious nor vanquished…” Skaf considered that “the message is rejected in form and content because it contradicts with national sovereignty,” noting that “it was rejected by significant blocs, most of them Christians, because they felt that France no longer cared for them and deepened the rift between them.” Touching on the presidential dossier, the MP considered that “the specifications will not lead to a president for the republic, but rather the circumstances that will fulfill this merit,” noting that “the characteristics of the future president were mentioned in the joint meeting in Doha, and the lack of internal cohesion between the Lebanese has rendered the election of the president in the pocket of the regional and international player.” Skaf added that “a president elected without the approval of the other party will not be able to rule.” Referring to the issue of “federalism”, the MP deemed it “a leap into the unknown,” underlining that “what is required is to strengthen internal unity,” hoping that “Le Drian would carry a reform project aimed at that, because Lebanon is in a stage of disintegration of the state and the collapse of institutions.”
Source: National News Agency – Lebanon