MP Salim Al-Sayegh affirmed Tuesday that “there is a constant willingness to sit down with all parties in the country,” and that “there are social, economic and reform matters that can bring the Lebanese together,” stressing that “Lebanon is a possible homeland, not an impossible one.” He said in a statement: “We are ready to sit with the other and hold dialogue, and we do not allow anything to prevent us from that, but it is not right to agree on a system and constitution to manage our democratic life, only to circumvent them every time under the pretext of dialogue…” The MP emphasized that “dialogue or any means of resolving other conflicts should not be a substitute for the application of the system and the constitution, which we agreed upon, and which despite our many observations on it has cost Lebanon a hundred thousand lives…” He continued, “What we are witnessing today is the complete loss of the authority of standards and its replacement by the authority of the balance of power, and this is what we notice when dealing with politics. The field of politics has become narrow and we have become in a series of fronts and imposing a fait accompli.” “We believe in the constitution, law, and order, but we have exhausted the democratic and natural means stipulated in the constitution, and we do not want to abandon the institutions,” Al-Sayegh went on. However, he indicated that the “fait accompli” is not confronted by mere wishes, but rather by a different equation that they are in the process of establishing today. He underlined the need for a confrontation that is far from arms or military, but rather a “national, non-sectarian confrontation that is transient to alignments”.

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon