Rahi: Reforms are Necessary but Minimizing Christians' Presence Unacceptable
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi rejected on Saturday the calls for holding a constituent assembly and said that reducing the Christians presence is totally rejected, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.
“We have not implemented the Taef accord yet. What constituent assembly are they talking about?” sources from Bkirki quoted al-Rahi as saying.
“Although introducing reforms is necessary, but changing the regime and cutting down the Christian’s presence is unacceptable,” he added.
The sources refused that al-Rahi be “involved in this matter,” they said “he was the first to reject the attempts for holding a constituent assembly and has warned against it on several occasions the last was from Dar al-Fatwa a year ago.”
They added that the Patriarch believes in “true partnership and refuses attempts of any party or sect to dominate the country.”
There are fears in the country that the ongoing political and presidential vacuum might eventually lead to introducing constitutional amendments or holding a constituent assembly that would radically change the current political system that is based on a delicate distribution of power among the country's sects.
On Thursday MP Talal Arslan called for holding a constituent assembly and said: “Since 2009 and up until this moment we have asked for holding a constituent assembly. We met with Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in this proposal.”
In June 2012, Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah openly called for “a constituent assembly elected by the people.”
over 8 years
The regime will be changed to reflect the demographic change and the new majority. Taef took the right of the Muslim majority especially the Shiites and gave those right to the Christian. The Christian presence is already way more than it is fair or democratic and that will be changed to reflect the new demographic majority and you'll have to accept that your eminence. Either way the change in the region will reflect itself here in Lebanon and the winners will give the majority their usurped rights.
over 8 years
Another fake account Movaten? Keep in mind Christians are still the majority, would you like them to return from around the world to there to prove the point?. Secondly, you're not Lebanese, you're Iranian.
over 8 years
Most of the Christians sold out to Iran, they brought this on themselves. Iran used this same method of claiming "majority" in Bahrain, Yemen, among other places...and what did the Christians do? Ignore and live stupidly in denial. The dollar was always more important than their faith and identity, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards used that to their advantage. I'm sure their selfie sticks will save them from AK47's and the sword.
Dear Batrak:
No one has destroyed the Christians more than the Caporal, his son in-outlaw and their gang of corrupt gangsters.