Dotting the I’S & Crossing the T’S
Lifting the immunity of Khaled Al-Daher is the extension’s clause
Written by Nasser Kandil,
The extension of the Lebanese Parliament has become almost settled, after the announcement of the President Saad AL-Hariri and his bloc of their boycotting of the Parliamentary elections until the Presidential elections carrying out, and after the understanding with the Patriarch Beshara Al-rahi, and the announcement of the President Nabih Berri of that the elections will not take place if a major component has boycotted, so the extension becomes a matter of directing and time and both of them are doomed according to dates for not more than few weeks.
The debate is about who the buyer is and who the seller is, in order to pay the buyer the negotiated price for the seller, regarding the extension issue.
In the last time, the President Nabih Berri has led the extension’s demand of the general atmosphere for the parliament, in order to keep the political stability and its fragile balances. On the basis of that the competition at the end is between the components of 8th of March on one hand and the groups of 14th of March on the other hand. It has been supposed that the forces of March 8th are trying to improve their presence in the parliament, and this will be at the expense of the current of Saad Al-Hariri; the leader of the broad representation of the Sunni sect, and thus he will seem like defeated, while the winner will be a current led by the Shiite in one way or another, even if it was across the Christianity presence. The Christian allies of Al-Hariri will not accept that this happened according to the own attitude of the Christian opponents, and as a result Al-Hariri will adopt this reason of his failure. Due to the fact that the formal Arab presence is under the leadership of Saudi Arabia, which its Lebanese political presence represented by Al-Hariri, so there will be an Arab media campaign against the new parliament. Unless this has not caused any practical action, then it will be enough to stir up the sectarian situation, inflame the strife, and to present a suitable condition for the growing of the atoning terrorism. President Berri supposed that Al-Hariri has a similar thinking of the reversed situation and its ability to achieve victory and its influence on Shiites and Sunnis, the dangers of sectarian strife, and the growth of extremism, so the extension is internally conditioned with the influences in front of the public opinion.
The current of 14th of March has bear down the whole extension load on the behalf of President Berri, Conversely the reward was to disable the parliament by the same current, moreover it introduced a new constitutional innovation which was not easily accepted by Berri, its title is “No legislation during the absence of the Republic President “so he confronted this plea which invokes conventions, and in return, he attacked the theory of “No legislation with the presence of resigned government “.
President Berri has won the decisive round, and thus the team of 14th of March has returned to the legislative parliament, Al-Hariri has called publicly for the extension, but now he declares his readiness to buy the extension, and asks the team of 8th of March to determine the price.
The extension is a precedent not a democracy, it is an authoritative precedent, its title is the political corruption, and the cost of this fault has to be national.
In front of the parliament there is a request of lifting the immunity of the deputy Khaled Al-Daher, on the charge of inciting to secede the army, insulting the military institution and calumniating the national invincibility, so is it acceptable to extend for Al-Daher ? And thus the strife will be legalized to have a voice within the parliament, due to the rule that the necessities permit the prohibited.
President Saad AL-Hariri said intendedly of Khaled Al-Daher, we will face those who are calling to fight the army in our ranks, let the agreement with Al-Hariri be a test and a lesson, moreover, we accept the extension in condition to vote unanimously on lifting the immunity of Khaled Al-Daher before the voting for the extension.
2014-10-17 | عدد القراءات 1548
