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Sfeir Upset of Situation, Leaving to Vatican
Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir is leaving to the Vatican on Wednesday morning. Some sources said that Sfeir was upset of the political situation in Lebanon and of the pressures practiced on him and that is why he intends to make a long trip outside the country.
On Monday, Sfeir warned that if the feuding political sides were not willing to compromise, presidential elections will be very difficult. "If each group wants to stick to its stance, without taking any action to meet the other, then elections seem to be very difficult," Sfeir told a delegation from the journalists' syndicate headed by Melhim Karam.
Sfeir said he cannot "foretell" whether elections will take place or not. He said it was up to the leaders to add or wipe out a name from the list of presidential candidates the cardinal had submitted, adding that he had to submit a list of presidential candidate names after the pressure practiced on him and in order not to say that Bkirki is impeding the consensus.
On Monday, Sfeir warned that if the feuding political sides were not willing to compromise, presidential elections will be very difficult. "If each group wants to stick to its stance, without taking any action to meet the other, then elections seem to be very difficult," Sfeir told a delegation from the journalists' syndicate headed by Melhim Karam.
Sfeir said he cannot "foretell" whether elections will take place or not. He said it was up to the leaders to add or wipe out a name from the list of presidential candidates the cardinal had submitted, adding that he had to submit a list of presidential candidate names after the pressure practiced on him and in order not to say that Bkirki is impeding the consensus.
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Sfeir said things seem complicated at this point with some leaders insisting on electing a president after solving the country's disputes, noting that Lebanon faces "many disputes."
"The solution is tied to the Lebanese and is linked to neighboring and faraway countries," he said.
"All that means that if they want all those problems to be solved in one day, then electing a president is still distant," Sfeir complained. "But we don't wish this to happen. No one can solve all these problems in one day ? but rather one problem at a time," he concluded.