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    This Is How Lebanese Are Reacting To The Obstruction Of Government Formation

    By Natalie HaddadAugust 13, 2021
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    Lebanon has to be extraordinary, even if that feature could, sometimes, goes beyond insanity. The most relevant one has been the government formation, which top urgency means taking all the time in the world to make it happen.

    The extraordinary about that is now worldwide knowledge: While the country is sinking under multiple major crises, those in charge have endeavored for over 9 months not to solve them but to create a new one that further aggravates the status quo: the saga of the government formation.

    Whatever the evident reasons, the hidden agendas, the excuses of the leaders’ followers, and the conspiracy theories, all don’t truly matter to the people. They have reached the end of the rope, and so is the country.

    An unspoken yet mind-taunting reflection of many: How the ruling forces, who have been incapable of deciding on a working team called the cabinet for over 9 months, could possibly be capable to tackle the most crucial matters: the crises?

    Here’s what Lebanese people have to say:

    كل يوم المزيد من العقد والمشاكل في تشكيل الحكومة وهذا يثبت عدم مبالاة السياسيين في لبنان لوضع البلد والمواطن الذي يعاني في ظل هذه الازمة الاقتصادية. #بهاء_الحريري #رفيق_الحريري

    — rubar saad (@SaadRuber) August 12, 2021

    “Every day there are more knots and problems in the formation of the government, and this proves the indifference of politicians in Lebanon towards the situation of the country and the citizen who is suffering in the darkness of this economic crisis.”

    مين منهم حاسس بالشعب اصلاً !!
    على الاقل يتنازلوا و يسهلوا تشكيل الحكومة ، حتى الشعب بس يتنفس

    — Rana A.Hassan✨🕊 (@RanaHassan40) August 12, 2021

    “Who among them feels with the people at all!! At least let them give up and facilitate the formation of the government, so the people can just breathe.”

    https://twitter.com/F_and_me/status/1425914844738465795

    “And [president] Aoun is sleeping and every day he postpones the formation of the government, and people’s nerves got burned and damaged..!”

    روح سهل تشكيل الحكومة وبكفي عرقلات وهيك بتكون عم توقف المجزرة بحق الشعب اللبناني #استحي_على_حالك https://t.co/Q6ZXQd4pBp

    — khaled rifaii (@KhaledRifaii6) August 12, 2021

    Tweeting in reply to Gebran Bassil, a Lebanese tells him, “Go and facilitate the government formation and enough obstacles, and that is how you stop the massacre against the Lebanese people.”

    https://twitter.com/nazih_202/status/1425872023159545862

    “Whoever delays the formation of the government commits a crime against the Lebanese people.”

    بلد فارط متل لبنان وشعب على ابواب مجاعة المسؤولين قرروا ياخدوا عطلة من تشكيل الحكومة جمعة سبت احد، ما بقى في مسبات نسبلكن هيي #رفع_الدعم #رياض_سلامة https://t.co/I3TuycLrEj

    — Omar Ghazal (@omarbghazal) August 12, 2021

    “A shattered country like Lebanon and the people at the gates of starvation, and the officials decided to take a holiday from forming the government on Friday, Saturday, Sunday. There are no more insults left to cuss you.”

    تعقيباً على إعلان الرئيس نجيب ميقاتي بعد لقائه #ميشال_عون في القصر الجمهوري أنهما «إستكملا البحث في ملف تشكيل الحكومة وإن شاء الله سيتابعان الأسبوع المقبل»، نطلب منهما أن يكفا عن العبث بأعصاب اللبنانيين لأن إعادة تقاسم الوزارات ألف مرة لا تعطي حتى علبة حليب صغيرة لطفل جائع.

    — R@b!h OU€!ÐAT (@RabihOUEIDAT) August 12, 2021

    “….We ask them to stop tampering with the nerves of the Lebanese people because redistributing ministries a thousand times does not give even a small box of milk to a hungry baby.”

    الوضع في الشارع يغلي، والناس تكاد تنفجر من هول ما تصادف من مصائب .. فيما السلطة لا تجد حرجاً في اخذ استراحة حتى مطلع الأسبوع القادم لمتابعة .. البحث.. في تفاصيل .. تشكيل .. الحكومة ! السلطة في عالم آخر !

    — General Michel Meaiki (@GeneralMeaiki) August 13, 2021

    “The situation in the street is boiling, and people are almost exploding from the horror of the misfortunes they encounter.. while the authority does not find it embarrassing to take a break until the beginning of next week to follow up…! The authority is in another world!”

    انها جريمة موصوفة؟؟؟؟ ويلي عم تعملوا فينا شو إسموا مش جريمة؟؟ تعطيل تشكيل الحكومة هيدا شو؟؟ تعطيل البلد؟؟ بس شفت البطاقة يلي فيها ١٥$ جريمة ؟؟ عن جد يلي استحوا ماتوا

    — zeina (@zeina917) August 12, 2021

    Responding to Gebran Bassil accusing the governor of the Central Bank to have (allegedly) decided to explode the country when the government was (allegedly) about to get formed, this Lebanese tweeted: “It’s a prescribed crime???? And what are you doing to us is not a crime?? Disabling the formation of the government, this is what?? …”

    إذا كان حزب الله وميشال عون وجبران باسيل وفريقهم يريدون الخير للبنان والشعب اللبناني، كانوا وافقوا منذ أكثر من سنة على تشكيل الحكومة اللبنانية ولم يضعوا الشروط والعثرات في طريقها
    ولكن الأنانية والمصالح الشخصية والإيرانية تعطل كافة الحلول في #لبنان
    ويقولون لك الحق على أميركا

    — صوت الذين لا صوت لهم (@aboaymankhaledk) August 12, 2021

    “If Hezbollah, Michel Aoun, Gebran Bassil, and their team have wanted the best for Lebanon and the Lebanese people, they would have agreed more than a year ago to form the Lebanese government and did not put conditions and obstacles in its way. But selfishness, personal interests, and Iran obstruct all solutions.”

    الخلافات على تشكيل الحكومة لأسباب انتخابية فقط. كل حزب وكل تيار بدو الوزارة يلي ممكن اتأمنلو أصوات اكتر ويقدر يرشي الناس ببعض الخدمات التافهة،إنها سياسة الاستعباد والذل تحت شعارات طائفية قذرة والمستفيد الاول منها من يدعون حماية الطوائف،هكذا يقسمون الوزارات#الخبثاء@ALJADEEDNEWS

    — Ibrahim Wehbi (@ibrahimwehbe16) August 12, 2021

    “… Every party and every movement wants the ministry that ensures them more votes and can bribe people with some trivial services. It’s the policy of enslavement and humiliation under dirty sectarian slogans, and the first beneficiaries of it are those who claim to protect the sects; this is how they divide the ministries.”

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