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Sheikh Qassem: Lebanon Left with No Executive


Hanan Awarekeh

Hezbollah's Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem contested on Sunday the unconstitutional government's decision to take charge of running Lebanon amid a presidential vacuum. Lebanon is now "without an executive power," Sheikh Qassem said, reiterating the Lebanese national opposition's stand that Fouad Saniora?s government lost its legitimacy when all its Muslim Shiite cabinet members resigned in 2006.

Saniora's government "does not exist, cannot rule and cannot take over from the presidency," he said. "Some people say the illegitimate government has taken over from the presidency, but this would only have been possible if the government was constitutional, legal and legitimate," his eminence added. "Only then could it temporarily take over (presidential powers)... but it is considered illegitimate," he said during a ceremony in Beirut's southern suburbs.
 

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Login to find out (November 25, 2007 at 4:27pm)
Moreover, Mahmoud Qamati, deputy head of Hezbollah's Politburo has said that the ruling bloc in Lebanon has virtually occupied the presidential seat which belongs to Christian Maronites according to the constitution. Qamati told Al-Alam Channel that the ruling bloc has created a new problem in Lebanon by occupying one of the most important pillars of power in the country. He said Lebanese groups could not survive by crossing out two vital political parties, namely the president-affiliated Christian Maronites and the Muslim Shiite groups present in the cabinet. Qamati was upbeat that a solution would emerge in the near future and said the head of the Free Patriotic Movement General Michel Aoun's proposal merits serious thinking and might break the impasse. He said the existing situation is not in the interest of the feuding parties and might plunge the country deep into turmoil.