Source: Kataeb.org
Wednesday 21 June 2023 15:00:48
The Kataeb Party’s Political Bureau held its weekly meeting chaired by Kataeb Leader MP Samy Gemayel. After the meeting, the following statement was issued:
1- The Political Bureau considered that the last presidential electoral session established a series of conclusions that must be stopped at:
In numbers:
1- The Kataeb Party indicated that the majority of Representatives, represented by seventy-seven deputy refused policy of occlusion on the country that Hezbollah has been pursuing for years to protect its weapons, projects, and gains, thus destroying every partnership with the largest group of Lebanese.
2- It emphasized that the candidate of Hezbollah is unable, despite the intimidation and enticement practiced by the party, to acquire the Christian or national cover, which are sufficient factors to exclude it form the race that it wants to continue.
3- The Kataeb Party declared that Lebanon gained a solid bloc of fifty-nine Representatives, who proclaimed an irreversible confrontation in the face of the destructive intransigence that overthrows the institutions and constitution and leads the country to a destination that its people do not accept.
In practice:
1- The Political Bureau pointed out that the disruption of the institutions and the paralysis of the country since 2006 continues with sit-ins, armed invasions, and the overthrow of the government until the imposition of an accomplished fact by force.
2- It indicated that the constitution continues to be attacked to hold the joints of major entitlements and control their results, so the election sessions are shortened to an orphan session, and then it promotes the statement of a package that agrees on the presidents of both the republic and the government before the elections, in an explicit attack on the concept of democracy.
3- The Party condemned the wide opening of the door for parliamentary legislation and the issuance of governmental decisions in the absence of a President, as it is a clear blow up of the governmental structure in Lebanon.
From all what has been advanced, the Kataeb Party stressed that we are in the core of a revolutionary path led by Hezbollah in steady steps since the Doha agreement, by enticement at times and intimidation at others, most of the time, against the will of the majority of Lebanese.
1- The Kataeb Political Bureau affirmed that this method will not pass, that all practices have become exposed, and that the new reality of the sovereign and national forces will stand as an impenetrable barrier in the face of the seizure of Lebanon.
2- The Party noted that the legislative session that was held constituted a flagrant transgression of the constitution when it authorized legislation for a council that has no right to meet except to elect a president of the republic and allowed it to vote on a project referred by a government that has no right to convene because it is in a caretaker state.
Continuing to raise salaries, despite its entitlement, did not serve the interests of its beneficiaries in the past and will not do so in the future, and its only result is more currency printing, more inflation and more price increases, which keeps the economy and living capacity in a disastrous spiral, and this is what the World Bank figures indicated, which estimated In his report, prices increased by 350%, ranking Lebanon first in the world.
The Political Bureau reiterated that the only solution for Lebanon to get out of its crisis is to go for real structural reforms, which this system does not seem to be about to resort to until it is too late.
3- The Kataeb Political Bureau deplored the speech issued by the Foreign Policy Official in the European Union, Joseph Borell, that condemned during the “Supporting Syria and the Region Conference” in Brussels any solution that leads to the return of displaced Syrians to their country.
The political path of the European Union belongs only to it, but it should not, in any way, reflect further collapse on the host countries, especially on Lebanon, which bears the biggest burden of the displaced and is suffering under the weight of the most serious crisis it is going through.
The Political Bureau pointed out that the support of the Syrian people should be by supporting their desire to return to their homeland, and not keeping them as refugees in the countries of the world after luring them with money, which could have ended the tragedy of their displacement if it has been spent in the right place.