Al-Rahi urges border control, slams presidential vote obstructors
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday called on security authorities to “enhance the protection of Lebanese border crossings.”
“We are praying for officials to rise above their private interests,” al-Rahi said in his Sunday Mass sermon.
“Why is Lebanon being deprived of the election of a president?” the patriarch wondered.
“Why is the (National) Pact being violated?” al-Rahi lamented, noting that the 1943 pact between the countries’ sects “stipulates that the president be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister be a Sunni Muslim and the parliament speaker be a Shiite Muslim.”
Source: Naharnet
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