Rahi Urges Protesters to Turn Demands to Election of President
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi voiced calls on Saturday on all the protesters not to be led astray by little demands and to emphasize on raising their voices in calling for the election of a president.
“All the protesters should not be distracted by small demands for the resignation of a minister or other. They must focus on demands to elect a president,” said Rahi on his second day tour to Mount Lebanon.
Rahi has kicked off a three-day tour to the area the day before.
He addressed the politicians saying: “We cannot live without a president, and you cannot deafen you ears to the demands to elect one.”
On Friday, the Patriarch conveyed a similar message, urging the campaigners of You Stink to take advantage of their demonstrations and call for the end of the vacuum at the top Christian post in the country.
Lebanon has been without a president since May 2014 when the term of President Michel Suleiman ended and the rival politicians failed to elect a substitute.
You Stink campaigners kicked off demonstrations in July in protest to a waste management crisis that left the country drowning in garbage.
Source: Naharnet
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