He Lebanon Start lifting head. After more than two years immobilized in a political block In full economic debacle, just one month ago, the country of the Cedros appointed its president, the military Joseph Aoun. Now, the Prime Minister, the Technocrat and former president of the International Court of Justice, Nawaf Salamhas managed to form government. From the parliamentary elections of May 2022almost three years ago, the Lebanese political class had not been able to agree for the creation of a new executive. During this time, the Lebanese people have had to face their fierce ECONOMIC CRISIS I already brutal Israeli military offensive of the past fall.
Therefore, Salam has not hesitated to appoint this new government ‘Reform and recover’. “The reform is the only way for a real change, with certainty, the implementation of the Resolution 1701 [que exige un cese total de las hostilidades entre Israel y Hizbulá, la retirada de las fuerzas israelíes del Líbano para ser reemplazadas por fuerzas libanesas y cascos azules desplegándose en el sur del Líbano, y el desarme de grupos armados incluyendo Hizbulá]and the Israeli withdrawal”From the villages and areas still occupied in the south of Lebanon, the prime minister has stressed from the Baabda presidential palace after the announcement of the new government.
Hizbulá removal
“We must restore the trust between the government and the peopleespecially satisfying the ambitions of young people, ”added Salam. In turn, the prime minister has promised to “restore confidence between citizens and the State, between Lebanon and their Arab neighbors, and between Lebanon and the International Community” and implement the necessary reforms to get the country out of a prolonged economic crisis. Has also promised to guarantee reconstruction in the areas destroyed during the war, especially the south and east of Lebanon, and the southern suburbs of the capital. Salam intends to reform the Judiciary, and a sign of this is the reactivation of the investigation by the Explosion in the port of Beirut This week, blocked since December 2021.
The new cabinet has 24 Ministersfive of whom are women, an improvement with respect to the only minister of the government of the minister. Najib Mikati. Although Hizbulá did not support Salam as prime minister, the Lebanese political party did establish negotiations with the new prime minister on Shiite Muslim seats that the Government has to include, according to the power distribution system of Lebanon. Both Salam and Aoun mark a departure from leaders near Hizbulá, breaking with the tendency of recent years, closer to Iran And his allies, like the neighbor Syria from Bashar el Asad.
Washington intrusion
Now, Beirut hopes to continue improving ties with Saudi Arabia and others Gulf countries. These alliances could help in the reconstruction efforts that the Lebanese state can hardly vote when entering its sixth year of the worst economic crisis in the world since the nineteenth century, as the World Bank considers it. Many denounce that Aoun’s appointment does not have the Backup of the Lebanese peoplebut rather from Washington. The statements this Friday of the American sent Morgan orTaguswho said in a speech in Beirut that Washington had “established lines Clear reds From the United States ”that Hizbulá would not be“ part of the government ”, they caused several reactions in the country, which saw them as an interference in the internal affairs of Lebanon.
The next February 18 The fire expires between Israel and Hizbulá, after the extension that the first imposed at the end of 60 days initially agreed. The Israeli troops They are still present in many villages of the border with Lebanon, in clear violation of the high the fire agreement. They respond to any person who approaches them, even if they are villagers who want to return to the remains of their homes. On January 26, Israeli violence caused the death of at least 24 peoplemost were citizens who tried to return to their lands, and two soldiers. This same week an explosive trap planted in a furniture in his home caused the death of four people, including two girls of seven and eight years, in Tayr Hafa, south of Lebanon.
