The two men’s relationship began to deteriorate on Sunday after Aoun signed a presidential decree accepting the existing caretaker government’s departure. Mikati then announced his rejection of the decree, claiming that signing it violates the Lebanese constitution.
Does Parliament find a solution?
The Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri called for a session under the parliament dome next Thursday, to recite the message of the President of the Republic, in which he considered that his step comes after the Prime Minister -designate Naguib Mikati expressed his “lack of enthusiasm for authorship for various reasons”, and to block the way for him to “hold sessions for a council The ministers “contrary to” the concept of conducting business in the narrow sense.
In the message from the departing president, Michel Aoun stated the following:
Mikati, however, sent a counter-message to Berri, claiming that “the decree that accepted the resignation of the government, originally resigned by the rules of the constitution, without any constitutional meaning.”
Aoun’s step is a previous step in Lebanon, where the President of the Republic must issue a decree accepting the resignation of the government, on the same day that the decree signs the appointment of the prime minister and the formation of a new government, so that the three decrees are issued together.
The reason for this is that the amendments to the Lebanese constitution, according to the “Taif Agreement”, which ended the civil war (1975-1990), led to the deprivation of the President of the Republic of some of his powers and put it in the behavior of the Council of Ministers, which lost the advantage of “appointing” ministers and “Choosing” the prime minister among them, unlike what the situation has reached at the present time, especially since the “labor” formation of the first government during the era of President Aoun (2016-2022), headed by Saad Hariri, took about 9 months, although Lebanon To deal with the effects of the growth of terrorist groups and cells, it required (at the time) an executive power.
According to many observers of Lebanese affairs, the situation under the current administration, which recently transitioned into a caretaker government led by Mikati, appears to be different, especially in terms of the absence of a communication chemistry between Baabda and Al-Saray. However, the consequences of the suffocating economic crisis have made it much more dangerous for the Lebanese to deal with the effects and derivatives of terrorism.
The outcomes of the scheduled session, which is set for next Thursday in the House Features, are the focus of the current attention, which is being watched with great interest.
“Chemistry of Communication” is not present in Lebanon, only between Baabda and Al-Saray.
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