Lebanon news updates for Sunday August 30

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Here are the latest updates on current issues in Lebanon.

You Stink protest

Protesters holding a banner that shows Lebanon parliament  Speaker  Nabih Berri and that reads  Ali Baba and the 128 thieves . The Lebanese parliament has 128 members.  Beirut Aug 29, 2015
Protesters holding a banner that shows Lebanon parliament Speaker Nabih Berri which reads Ali Baba and the 128 thieves . The Lebanese parliament has 128 members. Beirut Aug 29, 2015

Security forces announced the arrest of 10 people after Saturday’s riots in Riad al-Solh Square that left two members lightly wounded.

Some protesters that came last night from Baalbeck to Riad al-Solh Square were  reportedly behind the riots , otherwise the protest in downtown Beirut in the Martyrs square was peaceful.

Commenting on the garbage crisis Maronite  Patriarch Beshara al-Rai said on Sunday:”The tragic situation we are in is the result of consumerist materialism and politics at the expense of the rise of the state.

“These are the personal goals, materials and policies that have blocked the election of a president for a year and five months, and thereafter, the work of Parliament and threaten to block the government. These were also behind the crimes, security chaos, corruption and misappropriation of public funds. This has led to depriving citizens of their most basic rights,” he  added.

Rai concluded on Sunday that the immediate election of a president, according to constitution , is the only way out of the crisis.

Commenting on the protest PSP chief MP Walid Jumblatt urged via Twitter the “You Stink” activists to exercise caution and prevent their movement from being politically manipulated, a possible reference to the rioters that came from Hezbollah stronghold in Baabeck

Both Hezbollah and its Christian ally MP Michel Aoun were accused  last week  of exploiting the “You Stink” movement for their  own agenda,  after Hezbollah  on Tuesday threw its weight behind the mass protests calling for the government’s resignation.

Minister of Social Affairs, Rashid Derbas told VOL: “Calling for resignation of Environment Minister is in vain” . He attributed the Cabinet’s failure to solve the garbage crisis to the deep rooted paralysis the state was suffering from, NNA reported.

The Movement praised the “You Stink” civil society campaign protest that was staged on Saturday, blaming the current situation in Lebanon on the failure to elect a new president, reported al-Mustaqbal daily on Sunday.

ISF says 2  policemen have been slightly wounded by rioters during events in Riyad Solh Square yesterday, NNA reported

Hezbollah/ FPM
Hezbollah block MP Mohammad Raad, said on Sunday during a Hezbollah celebration in Bazourieh that his party’s engagement in “defending the country” does not distract it from people’s daily concerns and does not take away from its support to its ally, the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM).

“Some of those in power are delusional that we are too busy with confronting takfirists and Israelis, and so they attempt to alienate our political ally….but we will not allow anyone to isolate the FPM, particularly the person of Michel Aoun.” NNA reported

Berri

Speaker Nabih Berri is expected to launch on the occasion marking the   37th anniversary of the disappearance of Shiite Imam   Moussa al-Sadr  an initiative aimed at ending Lebanon’s current political deadlock. The commemoration will be held at 6:00 pm in the southern Lebanese city of al-Nabatiyeh.

Sources told the daily al-Mustaqbal Sunday that Berri will announce a “roadmap for a solution to Lebanon’s national crisis.”

The roadmap will cover the country’s presidential, governmental, and parliamentary deadlocks, they added.

As expected Berri revealed his initiative plan :” On September 3, I will call for a dialogue limited to Tammam Salam and the heads of parliamentary blocs. In form, it won’t be any different from the 2006 dialogue, but it will be different in content. The agenda will tackle the presidency, the work of the parliament and the government, the electoral law, the law on restoring citizenship, the administrative decentralization project, and equipping the army.”
He added : We will not bargain over the people+army+resistance formula.

Musa al Sadr Highway
Berri added : “Public Works and Transport Minister Ghazi Zoaiter declares that the Tyre-Naqoura road will be considered an international highway and that the Zahrani-Tyre-Naqoura highway will be named the Imam Moussa al-Sadr Highway.”

berri in helicopterTraveled by helicopter to al-Nabatiyeh
Spekaker Berri , who blocked all the roads around his Ain al Tinah residence in Beirut traveled by an army helicopter to al-Nabatiyeh in south Lebanon on Sunday

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11 responses to “Lebanon news updates for Sunday August 30”

  1. arzatna1 Avatar

    I heard that Berri is the number one thief in Lebanon, is Aoun number 2 ??

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      Amazing the power a mere ‘Speaker of a House’ has in Lebanon … basically just supposed to be the ‘referee’ in debates in the House …

      1. Amazing how with the current crisis and all the obvious crap from all the politicians how we who live outside and claim righteousness sit here and pick and choose who we want to decide is a thief or not? Basically all these war lords were poor before the civil war and became rich from the civil war. Since the taif accord the Hariri family and their circle have had an usurper over the finances of the country have they not? Everyone sits here and says this person and that person without directing at the people personally responsible for the current situation. The environment minister is the one responsible regardless of whatever friggin race colour creed or cave he or she comes from. We have a crisis and our environment minister has just withdrawn from the committee formed to oversee this crisis and the other machnouk was busy in mykonos having a good time living it up??? If this country wants to be saved then how about we just call a spade a spade and deal with the problems at hand. Regarding the presidency aoun whther people on this site like it or not has the majority of christian seats in parliament. I despise gagea but if he had the majority of the seats then I would say he is entitled to it. If the shiite druze or Christians had done to the sunnis regarding the pm position then there would be an uproar. Saudia arabia does not want aoun it’s aobvious. Mustaqbal and gagea take their orders from their do they not? Re the garbage crisis it is beyond ridiculous that machnouk is still the environment minister. Salam as pm and president and head of the current so called government needs to make decisions one of those is terminating the environment minister regardless of who he is. They all cry and act innocent but they are all the same. Truth is this situation in the government only suits them because they all know if their were to be elections none of them would probably get back in.

  2. William Petro Avatar
    William Petro

    the saudis are controlling lebanon through the sunni future movement!
    this is what Aoun is talking about.
    Salam is part of the future moment, he gets his money and orders from Riyadh saudi arabia!
    Machnouk is a sunni who is charge of the garbage, how do like the job he is doing?

    1. arzatna1 Avatar

      Where did Aoun get his millions from ?

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Kick-backs for allowing garbage collection … and Turkish Power ships …. and supplying fuel-oil (even if bad) for those ships … and for deciding who would fix the sips … etc …

  3. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    “Some protesters that came last night from Baalbeck to Riad al-Solh Square were reportedly behind the riots ” …. makes sense, doesn’t it?

    1. What makes sense?

  4. Fauzia45 Avatar

    ^Caution ^ is the right word ,for there are those who want chaos so that they can blow the situation and shove away those that want reforms and their rights as citizens and take over !!!!!

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