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Why are the presidential elections that important ?

Posted by N10452

We have tackled this issue tons of times already, without asking ourselves one important question:

Why is so much importance given to those elections ?? How come we cant agree on a president but we can easily agree on a head of parliament and a Prime Minister ?? How come Muslims can reach agreements and we cant ?? Is it the Christians’ fault or Our allies ??

A big responsability falls on Lahoud here, on the harm he has done to both Christians & Sunnites and the harm he has shown he is capable of in the past two years. He has shown in the past few months as well that the president is a crucial and powerful seat, and that one can no longer neglect his role, unfortunatelly of course he strenghened this seat the wrong way, but i believe this is the main reason why the Majority led by Saad Hariri, son of Rafiq Hariri who was mostly fought and harmed by Lahoud, is giving that much importance on the upcoming presidential elections.

Christian-wise, we were divided throughout the Syrian hegemony, but our leaders were weakened and today we got our leaders back and as a result, instead of uniting and cooperating and working as the moderator btw Sunnites & Shiites, we allied ourselves and became dependant of each side.

Why cant we agree on a president ? a simple and clear answer : Michel Aoun.

14M Christians & a large group of the 8M Christians (non-Aounists) want those elections to happen, and wont mind proposing someone different than Aoun, as long as Aoun agrees on him, but the dilemna here is that Aoun only wants himself at any expense and at any price.

It is his right to run for president, however it will be his biggest sin to block those elections and get us into more trouble. it would be a crime against his voters firstly, regardless of whether the other team is wrong or right.

Those elections were given that much importance because Christians were unable to agree and politicians from both sides are exploiting the chance to score some points, from Berri to Nasrallah to Hariri etc etc …

I dont know what will happen, no one does, everything seems so unclear, we are living in a chaotic situation that could get even worse, and we are yet to realize that .. it is like someone speeding on the highway and seeing a wall ahead of him and not braking at all ..

We are waiting for the trouble to come to us so we REACT, instead of ACTING and saving ourselves.

Who is to blame ??

First and foremost, each one of us who still follows blindly and votes for a leader, without demanding accountability and honesty.
Second, i blame Aoun’s stubborness and madness and blindness.
Third, i blame M14 Christians for being unclear in their statements and failing to name one valid candidate.

I guess we have to rely on Michel Hayek, he seems like the most reliable of all our politicians.


Filed under: Editorials, Lebanon, Political
Posted by N10452 on 11.03.07 @ 9:50 pm |

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12 Comments. Add your own...

  • 1. Roland | November 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 pm

    I think the majority should go and elect a president bi noss ze2id wa7ad no matter what the cost..
    Ma finna ndalna nmatil.

  • 2. Paul N. | November 4th, 2007 at 2:56 am

    The last couple of years have shown us, very clearly and as blind as we are, that the country can survive (and function to some extent), without a president. Seniora, +/- Berri were attending international conferences, meeting world leaders while Lahoud was in Baabda.
    What is more scary, is that Nasralla in his speech few weeks ago, called to change the presidential elections and make it directly from the people.
    My fear is that if we are unable to elect a strong Christian president now, we can very well lose that spot. If we don’t have a president who is able to restore strength and importance to this position, few years from now, it can very well be a non-Christian is who is the head of state.

  • 3. Ali 1559 | November 4th, 2007 at 7:31 am

    Who is to blame ??

    GOD ya N .

  • 4. wassim | November 4th, 2007 at 11:29 am

    hahhaah eh walla ma3ak 7a2 ya Ali1559 :D hayda N 3ando 3e2de nafsiye esma michel aoun:D hahah so funny hal N

  • 5. Bachir 7ay Fina | November 4th, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    2a7la chi elections 3a ases lkada2 w men chouf min byerba7.
    iza reb7o 14 march l7akim bi koun ra2is w iza 8march khalle el 3awn ra2is.
    Bass el mechekle enno 7olofe2na bi 14march byorofdo el kada2 abel 8 march.

  • 6. N10452 | November 4th, 2007 at 2:23 pm

    Hayda li chatreen fi el aouniyye :-)

    maskhara wel mahzale .. and when it comes to serious questions they become parrots ..

  • 7. Amir in Tel Aviv | November 4th, 2007 at 5:13 pm

    You did not answer the question in the title.
    Why indeed are the presidential elections so important; if at all important.!
    The powers given to the Leb. president by the constitution are minor (correct me please if I’m wrong here).
    I think the huge quarrel could be explained only through psychological means. Who said Leb politics is just like a soccer league.?
    .

  • 8. Reader | November 5th, 2007 at 8:08 am

    Alors pour resoudre ce probleme, eh bien donnons la parole au peuple … C’est simple non ?

    Nous passons par une crise grave ? nos politiciens n’arrivent pas a se mettre d’accord ? Alors laissons le peuple trancher democratiquement …

    Pourquoi avons-nous peur du choix du peuple ?

    Le politicien est au service du peuple et pas le contraire alors c’est a nous de decider sinon nous sommes alors des animaux esclaves sans aucun pouvoir de decision.

    Moi en tant que citoyen libanais je veux choisir, ma voix est plus importante que celle des politiciens. Ma vie est au Liban et je ne quitterai ce pays pour rien au monde. Je ne veux pas la guerre des autres. Pour cela je veux choisir en toute liberte mon president, mon premier ministre, mon depute, mon maire …

    Je m’adresse a vous tous. Le liban appartient au peuple libanais pas aux autres. Le Liban n’appartient ni au bloc du 14Mars ni a celui du 8Mars, mais a vous et vous seul.

  • 9. Ali 1559 | November 5th, 2007 at 8:30 am

    Wassim

    ;) Got ya lol … And N inta bi chu chatir ? brobaganda (propaganda) Mou?

  • 10. othello | November 5th, 2007 at 1:36 pm

    1- to those proposing we give the power to the people…do you understand the concept of demographics? do you understand that the shiite population, to give an example, is increasing in an alarming rate??? ever paused to think where we would be in say ten or fifteen years??? I guess no.

    2- to the aounists trying (in vain) to defend their god/idol/leader/whatever nomenclature they give him…how blind will you remain and what is the price you are willing to make this country pay for his wacky schemes???

    3- to N…M14 did name and two candidates for the presidential seat…you have to take into consideration this is a political game “bi imtiyez” and that we are not yet at the stage where like “civilized countries” we can have a bunch of people openly running for presidency with their programs presented to a people that has the right to hold them accountable as to deliverables…

    the policy of reacting rather than acting is the best policy you have left when u r walking a mine field…and the Christian street is today a minefield.

    do not, for an instance, be mistaken about this my dear N…the street is so tensed and ready to explode that the tiniest faux-pas could cause it to blow…and no one wants this…hence the reactive approach…

    you have to keep in mind that inter-christian fighting is what M8 and Syria wants dearly…a replay of 1990…weakening of the strong Christian resistant street and henceforth a break down of M14 as a whole….

    add to it it would serve to ease regional/local Sunni-Shiite tensions and provide a way for Syria to reestablish its grips on the country…

    anyways, the info that many would pay large sums for today will soon become free of charge as the proverb says fa lets wait…

  • 11. reader | November 5th, 2007 at 5:54 pm

    1) Quelles sont vos preuves que l’opposition et la Syrie veulent de nouveau une guerre entre chretiens ? Eclairez ma lanterne ?

    2) Oui le Bloc du 14 Mars a nomme 2 candidats, C’est bien, mais constitutionelement ils ont besoin des 2/3 des deputes pour elir un president. L’opposition refuse de donner ses voix pour ces 2 candidats et donc a le droit de boycoter l’election.
    Qui a raison je ne sais pas. Mais nous sommes tous d’accord qu’il y a une crise. Une crise qui peut mener a une confrontation militaire.
    Faire des elections anticipees je pense que dans une telle crise ceci est impossible
    Faire un Gouvernement d’Union ? il s’avere aussi impossible.
    Alors QUE FAIRE ? Nous allons a la GUERRE ? Est-ce Raisonable.
    d’ou la solution est de remettre la decision finale au Peuple.
    OU EST LE PROBLEME, POURQUOI CECI DOIT MENER A UNE CONFRONTATION ? Est-ce que vous qui etes apparement du Bloc du 14 Mars et moi de l’oposition, voulons-nous la guerre ? Je ne le pense pas. Si le peuple ne veut pas la guerre alors qui va combatre ?

    3) Pourquoi nous donnons le pouvoir au peuple pour elir les deputes mais il est interdit de lui donner ce pouvoir quand il faut elir un president ?

    4) Si la population chiite augmente ceci ne change en rien son appartenance a ce pays. Les chiites sont des libanais et ils ont autant de droits que les autres.

    5) D’apres votre texte je comprends que les chiites peuvent par leurs nombre elir le president qu’ils veulent. Mais si par leurs nombre ils peuvent nommer le president alors aussi logiquement par leurs nombre ils peuvent choisir les deputes et donc par la meme occasion le president. Nous revenons au point de depart.

    6) Les statistiques ont montre que la population libanaise se partage equitablement entre les 3 plus importantes confessions. 30% plus ou moins pour chaque. Donc les Chretiens, les Chiites et les sunites ont le meme poids dans une election presidentille. Donc si l’election se passe au sufrage universel, donc par le peuple, chacun des 3 candidats (Botros Harb, Nasib Lahoud et Michel Aoun) aura sa chance d’etre elu en vu de l’actuelle image politique. Le bloc du 14 Mars a une majorite Sunites et Druzes ainsi qu’un certain pourcentage de chretiens. La majorite de chiites sont dans l’opposition avec un certain pourcentage de chretiens. Dans la situation actuel je vois que c’est les chretiens qui auront le dernier mot. Et donc celui qui est le populaire dans la camps chretiens sera logiquement elu President. OU EST LE PROBLEME ALORS. L’ELECTION DIRECTE PAR LE PEUPLE EST DONC LA PLUS SURE ET CELLE QUI EVITERA TOUTE CONFRONTATION.

    7) en ce qui me concerne, je suis une personne laique, j’ai aucun probleme de voir un chiite, un sunite ou un Druze a la presidence de la republique tantque celui-ci respecte la constitution, le droit au culte, l’egalite entre toutes les religions et bien sur l’Independance du Liban

  • 12. Ali 1559 | November 6th, 2007 at 2:45 am

    Amir

    It is not about having a president or not . The lebanese politicians are relying too heavily on support from external resources , and bcoz of that , they are going to lose control over their country ( wich will only benefit you in order to press charges or military attack against lebanon ) . Lebanon is not a soccer league , sir . And electing a president is more than important in our society .

    Accepting others is a good indication that you accept yourself , would you accept me without a president ? I doubt it . Then , we need a president to represent us , we need a president to lead our diversity . This is why the presidential election is important in lebanon. Not to have a president is against our constitution.

    Thank you for your time .



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