Report: Hizbullah Seeking to Change National Pact in 2012
Hizbullah is seeking to introduce a new national pact in Lebanon given the various regional developments that have taken place in 2011, reported Akhbar al-Yawm news agency on Friday.
An informed source told the news agency that the party does not believe that the Taif accord “is holy and should not be altered.”
It instead believes that it can be amended or developed seeing as over 20 years have passed since the accord was signed in 1989.
Hizbullah officials are preparing a work document on which they will base the demand to introduce a new national pact, revealed the sources.
Lebanon’s National Pact, devised in 1943, is an unwritten agreement that set the basis for the political system in the country, which is based on sectarian distribution of power.
The ideas of the National Pact provided the basis of the Taif accord that stipulated, among other matters, that the president of Lebanon would be a Maronite, the speaker of parliament a Shiite, and the prime minister a Sunni.
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