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.
Source: Naharnet
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