Who has committed a mistake Franjieh or Aoun?
Written by Nasser Kandil,
Some of the keen people of the forces of 8th of March insist on dealing with the name of the Deputy and the political leader Suleiman Franjieh as a serious presidential candidate from the perspective of answering one question, who has committed a mistake the Deputy Suleiman Franjieh by the acceptance of presenting his name, while the General Michael Aoun is the candidate whom Franjieh ensures the adherence of his team and his allies, and his adherence personally to support his candidacy, or the General Aoun who has committed a mistake, because he did not announce his blessing of the nomination and giving loyalty to Franjieh as the latter did, as long as what is important is that the presidency is for whom has the characteristics of the strong Christian leader, and Franjieh is one of the four major Christian leaders as it is accustomed to nominate them, so how if he is the closer ally who belongs to the same Christian and national constants, those are saying; if the matter is serious, then this is what is going to be either Franjieh refuses or Aoun welcomes, and if it is a maneuver then it must be broken by the refusal of Franjieh and the welcoming of Aoun/
The problem of this proposal is that it is far from reality three times, first, it denies the most important feature of the nomination of Franjieh, and which all the parts of the 8th of March must stop at it according to the description of the Head of the Lebanese Forces Party Samir Geagea, it is the announcement of the defeat of a team that has fought in order to nominate Aoun on the basis of reasons that are related to its regional choices, its alliance with the resistance and its adherence to its weapon in addition to its defense of the resistance’s fighting in Syria, so after its problem had become the type of challenge to nominate Aoun, it cannot find a compromise but only to adopt the nomination of someone who is deeply rooted in the choices which Aoun has been refused for, so it is enough to have the nomination of Franjieh who is a personal friend of the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad from the closer ally to Saudi Arabia which considers the most important issue of its issues is the war which it wages against the President Al-Assad. In Lebanon no one of the allies of Saudi Arabia adopts his candidacy to complete the presidential elections but only the closer friend of Al-Assad, it means that the team which adopts the nomination of the General Aoun and Franjieh within this team has won the battle, as it is a battle of choices whether the nomination of Franjieh was serious or a maneuver.
The second problem is in the far presenting from reality, it grips the rights and the duties of the parties of the 8th of March in the assets of the managing the political game, because when your opponent appears that he has an independent decision and able to bear the responsibility of saying convictions that do not have the interests of his regional or local allies, as Al-Hariri has tried to suggest, then the demand to Franjieh to appear is not less important, and when the opponent shows a desire in the game of mystery then it is no possible to reveal all the cards, and when the opponent presents a serious incomplete project, and needs for more time to be matured and to be promoted, then it is non-permissible for a team through which the resistance is a safety valve in it and a most prominent regional player in to behave as if it is incapable to respond verbally. So let us help in its maturity and wait for the promotion but let the first step from you, because it is unreality to restrict the matter in the constants and the major options, and depriving the political leaders from the maneuvers and considering their privacies as leaderships that have audience and followers as well as the right of ambition but within the morale which none of the leaders Michael Aoun or Suleiman Frajieh have surpassed its controls.
The third problem is in the unreality of the current proposal; because it ignores the absence of a real moment of settlement, since the region is in the worst moments of tension and its rapid changes. Saudi Arabia may not be tolerant with leaving the presidential decision to Al-Hariri while it is losing all its cards in the region, what has been settled is embodied between the serious preparing,the maneuver, foreseeing the reactions and the attempt to ignite a dust storm, the official and the public dealing with what has happened is related to the development of the conditions that pave the way for its turning into a project which its time is not mature yet. So let the Saudi question about the reaction of Hezbollah without response, and let the nomination of the General Aoun is present and the nomination of Fanjieh is probable, and let the choice in front of the forces of 14th of March between them, thus this will be the only title of the presidential proposal, let the dispute in the team of the allies of Al-Hariri is a source of confusion for them not for us, and those among them who want to support Aoun as a president, have to negotiate with him about the presidency and the whole package including the relativity law, and to search of how to compensate Franjieh after presenting his name presidentially, and for those who want Franjieh as a president have to negotiate with him on the same package including the relativity law and to search of how to present the guarantees and the commitments which are acceptable by Aoun and his movement, since he is the most prominent candidate whom there are no elections without his acceptance and without his nomination Franjieh as a substitute of him for the presidency officially. In all conditions, it is clear that who accepts the bargaining with the General Aoun will compromise on the Deputy Franjieh tomorrow, and who has recoiled from the understanding with the General Aoun yesterday nothing is preventing him from recoiling from the Deputy Franjieh today, and who wants to hear the equation of the acceptance of searching for a substitute of Aoun today will like to hear the equation of the acceptance of searching for the substitute of Franjieh tomorrow, but we did not hear this and will not, because the only equation is Aoun is our official and the only candidate and the presidential speech is with him alone, while Franjieh is a leader who is worth to be a president, and for those who see this is a presidential solution has to be proud to say this publicly and to turn it into an official project in public, starting from asking the General Aoun towards presenting the matter within a project of integrated package on the dialogue table, then the answers which must be said can be heard only.
Franjieh has done what must be done within the morale of the major leaders, and has said what is expected to be said with all the criteria of loyalty, Aoun has done what must be done as an expert political leader, he avoided the speech lest of any temper or interpretation with all the criteria of cleverness. Those who want to show the victory of a full political team where the presidential victory is restricted in one of its staff, as a defeat of it or a part of it are committing a mistake, because there is no place for two presidents .
Translated by Lina Shehadeh, .