The password of Al-Hariri’s speech

Written by Nasser Kandil,

In his TV presence after a week of his absence, the Prime Minister Saad Al-Hariri said in his interview that” I can’t confirm or deny whether I am free or in detention” then he notified us that his statement of resignation was under his free will in spite of the signs of dullness, the trembling of his lips, short breath, and gasping during his talk to  the extent of being so close of shedding tears, as a sign of nervous breakdown of a person who lives under great pressures, he greeted the President of the Republic for what he called his constitutional position not to accept the resignation, assuring that he knows that he has to return back to present it in writing to the presidential  palace. Al-Hariri knows that through his words he abandoned some of the powers and the dignity of the premiership, since the President of the Republic does not have a constitutional right not to accept the resignation of the Prime Minister, but what the President of the Republic did is to wait to see whether the resignation was under his free will or under the duress. The linger to announce a resigned government by  the President of the Republic is not a constitutional act unless the Prime Minister is in custody, so he worth the thanking and the greeting because his linger paves the way for the freedom of the Prime Minister. Al-Hariri responded to those who defended the constitutional resignation at their forefront his allies from the religious men and politicians since they are accomplices to his abductors.

The Prime Minister told us that he wanted to make a positive shock through his resignation, but he did not tell us how, can we believe that what we have heard from him can be considered as a prelude for a positive shock? what if the President of the Republic did not wait and considered the government resigned and called for parliamentary consultations to nominate a new prime minister then the resignation would be a beginning of a negative shock where there is no place to expect the positives. In this case, will Al-Hariri be satisfied depending on what he said that the goal was a positive shock, since he is absent for a whole week cannot be talked to or even met? Furthermore the French President couldn’t meet him. The President of the Republic and the Speaker of the parliament were unable to talk to him by phone, even his parliamentary block was unable to reach him by phone or video conference, and even his daily tweets on the social media were absent, so everything tells us that he has lost his freedom and he is forced and confined,  he was  charged with taking us into a disaster which was prevented by the President of the Republic, the Speake of the parliament , and Hezbollah, refusing to listen to Al-Hariri’s allies by rushing to consider the government resigned, since the opportunities of thwarting the plan of the fabricated resignation  are available and in order to pave the way for Al-Hariri to announce that he is coming back soon. So this means the plan of detaining him has failed and the favor of liberating him is for the Lebanese, so this can be considered a chance for a positive shock only.

Al-Hariri sticks to the content of his speech by announcing the fall of the settlement which brought him to the premiership, as a response to the Saudi request, but the settlement was not violated and has not fallen as he tried to convince us, because we know the essence of the settlement as an agreement of the coexistence and the living with the multiplicity of regional options, Al-Hariri was satisfied with it until the resignation, which was an announcement of the intention of a Saudi exit from it by obliging Al-Hariri to resign in searching for a new settlement which its content is impossible, because it drives Lebanon to the axis of Saudi Arabia and thus the conflict with Iran. This means that the return of Al-Hariri will not mean the return to the settlement but to resign, and being under the caretaker government till the upcoming parliamentary elections and the entry of Al-Hariri to it after he had known those who were hasty to inherit him, so he regained a popular momentum which he lost before this ordeal. This will allow him to keep many of his rivals away from the next parliament. All of that was due to the positions of those who supposed to be the opponents of Al-Hariri and the opponents of his regional choice, so no one will be upset from his influential winning electorally and from his alienating those who were hasty to get rid of him politically or to inherit him, for a simple reason; because Al-Hariri is the son of this settlement which he was obliged to get out of it, he will remain under pressure even if he returns to Lebanon, but after the election there will be a lot of change in the region and Al-Hariri will be a partner in a new settlement, it is the choice that his partners wanted in the settlement which his resignation announced its fall, later on he will be at the bank of the winners regionally, while Saudi Arabia will have a new position in the regional game and Al-Hariri will get more of his freedom after he removed rivals who were mere intelligence tools that have nothing to do with politics.

Al-Hariri appeared as an adversary by linking a dispute form outside the rule and the settlement, waiting for the elections to liberate him, he denies but we understand that he is under duress, he thanked us in his own way as if he says thanks to the Excellency the President for not accepting the resignation, this was the password of the detainee Saad Al-Hariri, its content do not leave me in detention by dealing with my resignation constitutionally.

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,