What do Lebanon's protesters make of Saad al Hariri's possible return to the prime minister's office?
Forty-two days after Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigned, and two new prime minister nominations later, Hariri’s name has once again been raised as a candidate.
Candidates are nominated to the post of president by MPs. So far, the names that have been put forward, are Mohammed Safadi and Samir Khatib, both wealthy businessmen. The most recent, Khatib, had the backing of Hariri’s Future Party as well as the parties in the March 8 bloc containing Amal, Hezbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement.
“I think they [the government] are not completely aware of the full situation, they are thinking they can manage to do exactly the same thing. They are not aware that the system is collapsing, not just the economic model, the whole corrupt confessional system. Hariri is playing [a game], like the others, like Amal, and Hezbollah, [so that he can come back] with different conditions,” said Activist with the National Observatory Against Corruption, Gilles Samaha.
Herein lies the problem. Activists like Samaha need a prime minister to move forward, as do the politicians, but they have very different ideas of who and why. Sami Atallah, Director at the Lebanese Centre for Political Studies, agrees with Samaha, that while Hariri says one thing publicly, his intention might be another: “This is the tug of war, or the battle, he has been wanting to come back under his own conditions[...] From the moment he resigned he thought that he could improve the balance of power around the table [of ministers], using the protests to serve that end.
“They will come up with a formula, as they have done before. Often it takes many weeks or months, but this time around it is very, very different, the economic situation is collapsing, we are in a crisis, but they don’t seem to be too bothered [by it], as [much as] the political bickering and the power balance.
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