The opposition’s bungled-up reaction to Mr. Seniora’s latest move is testimony to its effectiveness.
Source: Yahoo!
For the last few weeks, the majority was in a fix. For every concession they made, the opposition asked for more. It was becoming clear to March 14 that the opposition was sensing weakness, and that what it really wanted is a vacuum that lasts until the Arab League Summit in Damascus next March.
Hardball is the Lebanese way of negotiating. And the only way one can extract concessions is by storming out of the negotiation room and going it alone. That was more or less what the Seniora government has just done. After all, a quest for total domination disguised as a pursuit of consensus can only fool some people for some time. March 14 might have decided that it’s time to turn the table.
Mr. Seniora’s move was so sudden and unexpected that the opposition couldn’t coordinate a common position. Even the otherwise calm Al-Akhbar blurted out that Mr. Seniora is compromising Mr. Suleiman’s presidency (a ridiculous charge considering the measures were precisely made for electing Mr. Suleiman)
To Mr. Aoun, the measures were Seniora’s blatant usurping of Christian rights (by using the President’s powers). To Mr. Berri, they were an unconstitutional move by an unconstitutional government, and to Hezbollah they were the result of an American shot in the arm to divide the Lebanese.
One can argue on whether or not Mr. Seniora’s measures were the right thing to do, but what we can all agree on is that the waters needed some stirring.
Related Beirut Spring Post:
• In November 22, I wrote on how Lebanon moved into “Vacuum Management”
Hello, my name is Mustapha and I've been blogging about Lebanese society, business and politics since February 2005.
I don’t know about yours Mus, or some of your readers’.
But my first reaction when I read this news was “NOW they got it!!”
The way I see it, M14 chickened out of the 50%+1 at the last minute during the last day before presidential void, and a crucial mistake that was.
I was frustrated because I was almost certain that, had they held that election with 50%+1. there would’ve been no reaction whatsoever, just as sure as I am that no reaction whatsoever will come from Saniora’s move.
It just took M14 quite some time to call that bluff. Now watch M8 huff and puff for nothing during the next few days (Drat 3al blat)…Unless M14 re-chicken out on that decision and call it off.
Only a ” FOOL” like you M14 people will believe that something will come out of Siniora’s Move.You people are so Phatetic and psicological mental disrupted, that you still dont want to believe your lost.Everytime any of your leaders “FART” you jump over to smell it and attach your self to it like it is your salvation.hehehehe…Hey LOOSERS that’s called “DESPERATION or HOPELESSNESS” .Long Live General “AOUN”.God Bless Him.Amen
Fadi,
Your point of view is always welcome, but please refrain from using obscenities or I’ll have to ban you.
A spell checker wouldn’t be a bad idea either.
I vote for the ban. For whatever that counts.
Opps…hehehehe..Did I Hurt your feelings Mustapha? And you telling me about obscenities???? Only because am not part of your Loosing Team? Gime a Brake !!!!! Tell evebody not to use “Obscenities” am sure you will find a lot of your M14 phatetic losers doing the same and am sure they did it Before me.An regarding about your treating me about “BANING ME” let me tell you something Mr. Moderator : Do you think I give a ” SHIIT” about it? Nice you said it,lets everybody see your Cedar Revolution and M14 True face. Is that what you people call “Free Speach” ? hehehehe….Go to Saudi Arabia dude..there is no place for you in the new Lebanon_Sunnami that is coming.Damm Looser..Long Live general “AOUN”.God Bless Him.Amen
i agree with mus that the waters need stirring, especially since sanyoora sits like a little ba7sa in the middle of the waters. stir them hard and stir them fast, fast and hard enough to create a whirlwind that flings the ba7sa out of the waters and renders them clean.
Fadi:
One thing to call others fools; yet another to repeatedly exemplify foolishness.
Mus:
Just let Fadi dig his own hole. His intolerance and foul language provides an example of what’s wrong in Lebanon. If the peaceful and tolerant did not outnumber the intolerant in Lebanon the country would have already sunk once again into all out civil war. Avoiding the latter has not been an easy task.
I agree with you Mustapha. March 14 did not go ahead for the 50%+1 (for reasons I don’t know) made the March 8 sense a weakness! Let’s see what March 8 will do. The whole people (except the March 8 followers who follow their leaders blindly with no sense or logic) will realize that the government wants just to elect Suleiman as a president.
Syria (using its March 8 cronies) wants to keep the status quo until at least the Arab Summit. Syria wants the Summit to declare that it is not isolated! In that case Syria will be a winner: getting paid for allowing the presidential election or several high level Arab leaders will attend to show the world that it is not isolated.
Regarding the comments section, let them bark! Ignore them guys. When it becomes too much, please ban them!
Banning is such a vulgar way of abuse of power. I vote: let FADI and BintJbeil stay.!
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Nice move by Mr. Siniora.
He once again proves his notorious mischievousness.
Now, what can the opposition say? that Mr. Suleiman is a bad choice? but they agreed to his nomination.!
A lesson to the opposition: if you want to walk on the edge, and play chess with the master of players (Siniora), you have do it consistently. Once you revealed your cards and agreed on Mr. Suleiman, you lost the game.
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Amir :
Thank you. I coulnd’t put it in better words.Yes it is Vulgar,Low,Dirty,Nasty,Disgusted and much more.That shows you and evrybody else their true way of Governing,their true Face,Their True Intention.That’s the way Siniora is running his Goverment,against the will of the mayority of the Lebanese people,they dont Care (Like “MUSTAFHA”) about anybody else,they just care about their gruop and their gruop only,giving them all the right and green light because they support thieft and murderes…Sorry for them, but their dream of making Lebanon another “Golf State” with the Saudis dictaring our way of live, is something they will never see,maybe you shoul go to Saudi Arabia and start a Cedar Revolution there or talk to your buddy Hariri for him to talk to his real Daddy “The king” to let women drive a car alone.Hey “MUSTAPHA” ???? Have you ever heard about the frase ” WE THE PEOPLE” ??? Have you ???? Next time you come to the USA, come and visit me..I’ll take you to a place where you will undestand the real mean of “FREE SPEACH”…LOOSER…Long Live General “AOUN”.God Bless Him.Amen
Guys i really dont think this Fadi(USA) is fadi i reckon he is ANTHONY NASRALLAH just a rude guy..
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Fadi (USA), keep up your childish attacks for they proof nothing more than your defeatist attitude and contempt for your failed leaders.
Mustapha:
I ask you that you ban this fady usa piece of crap so that we can continue to have intelligent and academic discussions. .His postings here and on naharnet are testimony to his utmost stupidity. Just keep the standard of your blog worth of the level of your postings.
Do you really think Seniora’s move to be wise???? You really don’t know nothing about the Lebanese constitution….
The move is nothing constitutionwise,it still needs the 2/3 of the parliement’s votes to be considered a constitutional amendment…..
There’s a french say:”Rira mieu qui rira le dernier”,and i think your opinion about a right move made by the Seniora Clan’s been rushed by you…
You just wait and see how wrong was this decision…
Well if the Government move appears to be unconstitutional for some, the HELL with them, they can only complain, wail and protest like an old bitch “mal baisee”. All they can do is gather under some colorfull tents, hang posters of their foolish leaders and chant for them while their women shake their bellys for entertainment. The Argileh, and some lahmeh 3alfahm to keep them going and strategically disposing public toilets for the “mo3tasemeen” that carry their SHIT! Don’t forget the derbakkeh and the amazing chants that get composed by a some future Lebanese Idols. I must admitt they are gifted and all full of stamina, endurance and most of all patrotism. Guys with the hands of those fellow Lebanese we will build the greatest nation of all. May god bless you and fills you with more and more with endurance and energy and may our greatest neighbour (Syria)with whom you share the same goals continue its CARNAGE and slaughter until it proclaims you rulers on this land and may all the lebanese people who are watching this barbary and RAPE of their nation to remember this black period of the Lebanese history and Hopefully would be wiped out from our history books to keep our next generations Civil and Sain. Lebanon will prevail and the campers will return HOME.
Hey Hey Heyyy… I am not sure if the word Fool is a bad thing… I’d think twice
Seniora? Aoun?
never heard of them… MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!
Well, at least now M8 know that they’re not the only people who can play foul, since I noticed a certain tendency to contend ‘Unconstitutional’ moves by Saniora. A few questions for the wise:
1. Where is the constitutionality of not allowing the parliament to convene?
2. Where is the constitutionality of not allowing the parliament a vote of confidence to the Saniora government?
3. Where is constitutionality about accepting the 2000 electoral law in Mount Lebanon and not in ‘some’ other regions?
4. Where the hell is constitutionality when some ministers theoretically are resigned and declaring the government ‘unconsitutional’, while in fact they are practicing their duties selectively?
I guess the eleventh amendment was right; bless you Pierre Sadek LOL
I seriously doubt the savvy of M14 and Saniora’s governement. Every single solution that has been put forward so far is in blantent breach of the constitution regardless of how some are trying to justify such proposals. The only legal way out of this impass is a 50+1 vote.
What baffles me the most is this fixation on Me.Suleiman, this new found saviour. I would seriously hate to see another military man for president.
And since this is the holiday season and joy should be spread, allow me to leave you with this joyful idea.
What if Michel aoun was to be ex-communiated for his recent attacks against Bkerke? Think about what it would entail.
Yalla ya Batrak make this bald move.
Happy holidays to all.
Dory said: if the Government move appears to be unconstitutional for some, the HELL with them, they can only “complain, wail and protest like an old bitch.”
In fact that is an exact description of the government move.
Mustapha, I know you won’t get affected by trashy comments. We love your website and we tolerate opposite opinions… unlike Safavid, Aounite and Alawite.
As for March 14th, they should keep the faith and the fight.
Could March 14th leaders start working actively on the ground with the population to stop demographic bleeding?!
To Ibn BintJbeil: If you think that speaker Berri hijacking the parliment is constitutional you’re a hypocrite. If you think inimidating your opponents by slaughter and elimination is constitutional you’re a coward. This is history unfolding to the lebanese. If you feel safe watching you’re fellow lebanese being targeted one after the other and sill going through the constitution to make your case, you’ve lost your sanity. Allow me to tell you one thing my fellow citizen, the truh will prevail no matter how many lives the slaughter and the carnage will sill take, it is lebanon’s destiny to be fought by its neighbours and by its own, yes it is Lebanon’s fate to pay for Syria’s pride and its lost Golan heights and for the Paletinians’ own divisions until Jerusalem is forever gone and for Israel’s survival and for the Muslims long lost conquests and glory and for the Panarabs long-lost dreams of unity and for the extremists Jihad and for Iran’s nuclear dream. Enough bullshit We lebanese want to live in peace, spare us your Jihad and spare us your hypocrisy for God’s love. We want to excell in science and economy we want to create opportunity for our kids and our future generation, we want to write and speak freely, we want to buld a nation. Lebanon is sick of you people, and bintjbeil has the guts to quote me, unconstitutional!!!
marillionlb:
Ex-communication for Aoun? Really, haven’t religious leaders often exhibited less integrity than members of their congregations? Lifetime religious leaders or dictatorial regimes, historically and ever so many times: Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Jas,
Do not take it seriously, it was ment as a joke and to state that the only way to shut this deranged general up, who still claims that he represents the Christians (not only in Lebanon) was to excommuniate him. As for Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, in my opinion he would be better off dealing with the needy within his flock and nothing else.
dory, i did not say any of the things you said i said. your imagination is very fertile.
marillionlb:
Exactly. When religion is accepted as a private individual expression of faith there is room for a government to reform. Peaceful coexistence requires tolerance; intolerance leads to war.