Rahi Fears State is Close to 'Total Collapse'
Maronite Patriarch Beshara Boutros al-Rahi said on Sunday that the Lebanese state has touched the verge of collapse in light of the vacuum at the presidential post and the paralysis of the parliament and government.
“The Lebanese state has reached a stage that threatens of total collapse because of those who either directly or indirectly were responsible for the vacuum at the top state post for the last year and six months,” said al-Rahi during Sunday mass in Bkirki.
“They have disrupted the work of the parliament, paralyzed the cabinet, drowned the country in garbage, oppressed and displaced the people, withheld the salaries of the military, neglected the righteous demands of the demonstrators and their campaign against corruption and theft of public funds,” he concluded.
Lebanon has been without a head of state since President Michel Suleiman's six-year term ended in May last year.
The Baabda Palace vacuum has caused the parliament's paralysis and huge differences among cabinet members.
The government assumed the responsibilities of the head of state in his absence but sharp differences have stopped it short of taking important decisions.
over 9 years
This man is serving you and your plans....why wouldn't you continue supporting him....???
But when we see the degree of destruction of the economy and the country which is happening because of HIM, no normal person or honest patriot could not but condemn him.
over 9 years
hasn't it already collapsed? LOL a state unable to solve the lowest basic needs of its ciizens is a failed country run by inefficient and cupid people....
over 9 years
Thank you for your intelligent remarks....you are winning....I am more and more convinced that I do not wish to live with total idiots....if you want partition, you are slowly winning my support....
over 9 years
I'm with Humble. I sit hear on the sidelines everyday reading your collective pointless rhetoric while Lebanon disintegrates before your very eyes. Because you can't agree even on the simplest of things, you will continue to suffer. You have made masters from your leaders and now they treat you like dogs. But once again, here you are, doing the very thing your masters want you to do: bark.
When will you rise above this? When will you realise that you already have the power to change your situation? When will you realise your words and actions/inactions are destroying our national fabric? Will more bloodshed remedy the situation? Has it in the past?
I'm not even sure there will be a Lebanon. The Lebanon that once filled my hear with a hope of a new beginning has now been pushed to a forgotten part of my mind. Until you can learn to live with each other, no one will care. Not your family, your neighbours, your village/town or your country. God save us all.
over 9 years
Well thought and well said. Thank you for your clarification.
over 9 years
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