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Middle East: Political comment on the situation in Lebanon
Posted by: admin on Thursday, June 12, 2008 - 10:36 PM
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Bismillah al-Rahman al-Raheem
 The Political Comment
General Michel Suleiman was appointed as President of the Lebanese republic in line with the Doha agreement on Sunday 25th May 2008. In his inaugural speech before the Lebanese parliament, Michel Suleiman talked about issues related to the Lebanese reality and the future of Lebanon. He said: “Power alternation through free elections is the basic feature of democracy. If the adoption of an election law guarantees the right of representation, entrenches the relationship between the voter and his representative and warrants the delivery of people’s choices and aspirations, accepting the outcome of these elections and respecting the wishes of the masses is far more important.” Earlier in the same speech, Suleiman said that “Lebanon has chosen to proceed according to the Taif Agreement and is invited to protect and work towards consolidating this choice.” He also talked about the resistance movement and justified its establishment and its armament, urging everyone to invest in the “faculties of the resistance” in service of the homeland’s defence strategy.
On Monday 26 May, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah hailed the new President during an extended speech marking the 8th anniversary of the liberation and touched on the developments in the Lebanese issue in the wake of the Doha agreement. He said that the election law was the “key towards building the state and to reshaping the authority, the government and its institutions.” He described the election law concluded in Doha as a “law of settlement” and hoped that a “time will come when all the Lebanese factions would be able to sit calmly and debate a modern and civilised election law that would lay the foundations for the rise of a state. The intentions of all those who claim they want to build a state are exposed when they talk about the election law in Lebanon, which is the key to building the state.”
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