The economic and social emergencies that mark the present situation of
Lebanon does not allow any delays or postponement in the formation of a
government that would help the Country.
This is what was strongly
emphasized by Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai Bouutros, during his homily on Sunday, November 6, six days after the election of former
general Michel Aoun for the office of President of the Lebanese
Republic, vacant for almost two years and a half.
During the homily - refer sources of the Maronite Patriarchate,
consulted by Agenzia Fides - Patriarch Rai recalled the many times in
which the Church had prayed to the Almighty so that the political
leaders of the opposing sides were enlightened and would bring to an end
the presidential vacatio that caused the deadlock of the whole,
delicate Lebanese institutional system.
"Now", said the Primate of the
Maronite Church, "we raise again our prayer to God, through the
intercession of the Virgin Mary, so that the Prime Minister-designate
Saad Hariri succeeds in forming a government as soon as possible", given
that "the economic and living conditions, the need to take care of the
development and security of the country do not allow delays or
postponements".
Patriarch Rai also invoked a prayer for the battered Middle East, so
that leaders can "stop the destructive wars in Syria, Iraq, Palestine,
Yemen and elsewhere, and to conduct serious negotiations to find
"political solutions to the conflicts.
Former general Michel Aoun, who was elected new President of Lebanon
last October 31 after two and two and a half years of presidential
"vacuum", on Thursday, November 3 entrusted to Sunni leader Saad Hariri,
leader of the "Future" political party, the task to form a new
government.
The rapid transfer of the mandate to the new Prime
Minister-designate represents a confirmation in the "new course"
embarked by the Lebanese national politics, paralyzed for a long time
because of the vetoes between the parties related to the different
ethnic and religious components of the Country of the cedars.