Mouawad fears Hezbollah to continue “coup”
MP Michel Mouawad of the March 14 coalition held the March 8 forces, the opposition and Hezbollah, responsible for the renewed security clashes across parts of Lebanon. Mouawad tied the sporadic yet incessant clashes to a plot to distract public opinion from the formation of a national unity government.
The opposition, Mouawad said, are “specialists in security affairs and the military, and aim at distracting public opinion from the issue of sovereign ministries.”
Mouawad added that the national problem does not lie in the formation of the government and the dispute over sovereign and service portfolios, but in the attempts to create an “illusion” in the security situation.
“What Hezbollah is doing today is completing the coup on Lebanon, its legitimate institutions, the Taif Agreement and the Doha Agreement,” Mouawad said from Bkirki.
Mouawad said he fears that ongoing attempts to disrupt the formation of the government would undermine the legitimacy of national institutions. The “mobile security problems” in the North, Bekaa and Tripoli were a “disciplinary process” in case the memory of what happened in Beirut was erased, he added.
Mouawad called on the Lebanese army to preserve the state, but noted that he fears that Hezbollah would not accept a ministerial statement in accordance with the clauses of the Doha Agreement.
“[Hezbollah] considers diplomatic talks on the Shebaa Farms a conspiracy against its arms, which confirms that Hezbollah’s plan is no longer to liberate the land, but has been turned inward… to place its hand on Lebanon,” he concluded.