Saad Hariri says he is 'free' in Saudi Arabia | Lebanon News. Saad Hariri has rejected rumours he is being held in Saudi Arabia against his will and pledged to return to Beirut "very soon" to affirm his decision to quit as Lebanon's prime minister. Hariri made the comments from Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh, speaking publicly for the first time since his shock resignation eight days ago. Speaking on Sunday on Future TV, a station affiliated with his political party, Hariri said he was free in Saudi Arabia.
"Here in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, I am free. I have complete freedom, but I want to look after my family as well," he said, adding that he planned to return to Lebanon in the near future. "I'm not talking about months ... I'm only talking about days and I'll go back to Lebanon. " 'Something wrong' In an unexpected move, Hariri, a Sunni Muslim politician and longtime ally of Saudi Arabia, quit as Lebanon's prime minister on November 4 during a visit to Saudi Arabia. Political turmoil. URGENT / LIBAN – Hariri à Riyad : séquestration ou mise en scène politique ? Depuis l’annonce surprise de sa démission, le 4 novembre, les rumeurs sur la possible assignation à résidence ou arrestation de Saad Hariri à Riyad vont bon train, au Liban et de par le monde, rumeurs alimentées, et par le mutisme de l’intéressé depuis la tenue de sa conférence de presse spectaculaire, et par la coïncidence de sa démission avec le coup de filet anti-corruption qui a rempli la chaloupe saoudienne des plus gros poissons, tels l’émir El-Walid Ben Talal et une dizaine d’autres, ainsi que des ministres et des hommes d’affaires, dont certains avaient de bons rapports avec le premier ministre libanais démissionnaire.
Depuis ce coup de théâtre, les différentes sphères politique, médiatique et cybernétique s’interrogent sur les raisons, les motivations, les circonstances et les dessous de la démission de Saad Hariri. Force est de constater que cette démission choc (et choquante) n’a pas respecté les modalités usuelles d’un désistement normal et « sain ». La décision Le mutisme. Hariri to Appear in TV Interview from Saudi Arabia. By Naharnet Newsdesk39 minutes ago Prime Minister Saad Hariri will appear in a TV interview in the coming hours, talk show hostess Paula Yacoubian confirmed on Sunday.
“I was on my way to Abu Dhabi on a private work trip not related to journalism and when I arrived I learned that PM Hariri had tried to contact me. I called him back and he told me, ‘You’ve been seeking an interview for some time now. You can come now,’” Yacoubian of Hariri’s Future TV told An Nahar newspaper. “I said sure and this is how it happened,” she added. The talk show hostess, who was readying to travel to Saudi Arabia on Sunday, added: “I will carry out an exclusive interview with the premier on Future TV and it seems that all television networks will broadcast it.
Al-Jadeed television meanwhile reported that “Saudi authorities have not allowed Future TV’s crew to accompany Yacoubian.” MTV had earlier reported that Hariri will not appear on Future TV on Sunday but rather “in the next two days.” Libano, una pedina nello scontro tra Arabia Saudita e Iran. C'è una sorta di potente triumvirato. Ne fanno parte tre Paesi che, prima dell'avvento al potere di Donald Trump, non avevano molto da spartire in materia di politica estera: Arabia Saudita, Stati Uniti e Israele.
Ora sono uniti contro l'espansione iraniana. Delusi dall'andamento della guerra in Siria, dove il regime del presidente siriano Bashar al-Assad è rimasto al potere, e i suoi alleati, Iran ed Hezbollah, ne sono usciti rafforzati, Riad, Gerusalemme e Washington sono concordi che gli sciiti libanesi di Hezbollah, nelle liste delle rispettive organizzazioni terroristiche debbano essere fermati, in un modo o nell'altro, prima che sia troppo tardi. Il Libano: pedina nello scontro tra Iran e ArabiaLa vittima predestina di questa intricato terremoto geopolitico è il piccolo Libano.
I pretesti sauditi per destabilizzare il LibanoDa tempo diverse fonti israeliane ripetono che una nuova guerra contro Hezbollah non è più una questione di se, piuttosto di quando. Cosa accadrà ora? Saudi Arabia orders citizens to leave Lebanon | Saudi Arabia News. Saudi Arabia has advised its citizens not to travel to Lebanon and asked those who are in the country to leave as soon as possible. The official news agency SPA quoted an official source in the foreign ministry on Thursday as saying: "Due to the situations in the Republic of Lebanon, the official source at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the Saudi nationals visiting or residing in Lebanon are asked to leave the country as soon as possible.
"The Kingdom advised all citizens not to travel to Lebanon from any other international destinations. " Lebanon has been edge after the sudden resignation of Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, who announced his departure while on a visit to Saudi Arabia on Saturday. His whereabouts have since been unknown. Reuters news agency reported on Thursday, citing a senior Lebanese official, that the Lebanese government has not received Hariri's official resignation papers, and as such still considers him as prime minister. Hariri's resignation is unconstitutional: Berri. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed meets with former Lebanon PM Hariri Saudi arranged resignation throws Lebanon into turmoil | Saudi Arabia News. Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s abrupt resignation over the weekend was bizarre even by the often twisted standards of Lebanese politics.
He made the surprise announcement from the Saudi capital in a pre-recorded message on a Saudi-owned TV station. Stunned Lebanese are convinced Saudi Arabia, Hariri’s longtime ally, forced him to step down to effectively wreck the prime minister’s delicate compromise government with the Iran-backed Hezbollah group. In doing so, the kingdom throws Lebanon into potential turmoil, forcing the small nation to become a new front in the regional fight for supremacy between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The move comes at a time when Iran and its allies are seen to have won the proxy war against some of the Saudi-backed forces in neighbouring Syria.
Sunni-led Saudi Arabia, under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has been intensifying its confrontation with Shia powerhouse Iran. Saudi fingerprints were seen all over Hariri’s resignation on Saturday. The Republic of Resignations | Moulahazat. PM Saad Hariri with Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil and two other government officials at the Grand Serail. Friday, February 17, 2017. (Image source: The Daily Star). As Lebanese parties start their drama ahead of next year’s planned elections, this picture is here to remind you of the hypocrisy of Lebanese politics. On the 4th of November 2017, one year after he was named Prime Minister (on the 3rd of November 2016), and in what might be the most unpredictable political stance of 2017, Prime Minister Saad Hariri unexpectedly resigned from his post of Prime Minister, citing Iranian interference, Hezbollah’s arms, and fear of assassination as motives for his resignation, and opening a new chapter in Lebanese politics.
An unpredictable and unexpected resignation Actually, not that unpredictable and unexpected In the Lebanese political context, hate is more efficient when it comes to winning votes. The Mikati-Rifi prophecy? The first consequence of the 2017 Adwan electoral law Like this post? The New Electoral Law: How Does it Work? The Lebanese cabinet has finally approved an electoral law after months of ongoing debates and disputes. To be honest, I stopped following up on this matter a month or two ago and I was almost sure they’d adopt the 1960 law but somehow the cabinet has managed to pull out a new law that all parties, well most of them, agreed on. The new proposed law is quite a complicated one and I didn’t have the time or patience to read it, but I bumped into Jean Nakhoul from MTV on Saturday during a birthday dinner, and he was pretty much explaining to everyone the new law, so I asked him if he wouldn’t mind writing it down in a blog post and so he did.
I spoke to him for over an hour and he’s so obsessed with elections he had examples of several districts with names and number of votes and all. The districts are divided as follows:Beirut I (8 seats): 3 Armenian Orthodox 1 Armenian Catholic 1 Maronite 1 Catholic 1 Orthodox 1 Minority Christian Akkar (7 seats): 3 Sunni 2 Orthodox 1 Maronite 1 Alawite. Is Lebanon’s New Electoral System a Path Out of Sectarianism? On Friday, June 16th, Lebanon quietly ended one of the longest stretches of government paralysis in post-Second World War history. The parliament met to ratify a new electoral law that will govern national elections next year, nearly a decade after the last parliamentary polls were held.
The law’s proponents claim that it will improve representation for the many sects that compose the country’s religiously diverse population. They say it also addresses demands by civil-society groups who have railed against the propensity of the political élite to pass power down through the generations and keep reformists at bay. In Beirut, there is both cynicism and optimism about what the new law might deliver. Since the onset of the Arab Spring, in early 2011, Lebanese politics have been gridlocked. Numerous dynamics feed the paralysis, but at its heart is a debate about the viability of Lebanon’s consociational government, which distributes power among the country’s religious communities. Dr. Compromise and concessions: Lebanon’s new electoral law.
After an eight-year suspension of the polls, a constitutional crisis and extensions of the Parliament, Lebanon finally has a new electoral law. The move paves the way for parliamentary elections next spring, the first since 2009. The new law is based on a proportional representation system. It includes reformist ideas that have been raised by civic groups, to improve parliamentary political representation. It also meets the aspirations of Christian parties, who want Christian voters to vote for Christian candidates rather than a mixed vote. The new law claims to reduce sectarianism, but one of the key problems with it is that it does in fact bolster divisions.
This is because it reduces mixing and increases the independence of different communities. Perhaps one of the major disappointments concerning the new law concerns women in politics. Lebanon has one of the lowest levels of representation of women in politics. Lebanon's draft new election law explained - An-Nahar English. BEIRUT: After years of political bickering, Lebanon’s rival factions have reached an agreement over the adoption of a new parliamentary electoral system, which prompted President Michel Aoun to sign a decree authorizing Parliament to convene for an extraordinary session to ratify a new election law.
The agreed-upon electoral system is based on proportional representation across 15 electoral districts. The draft law was originally proposed by former Interior Minister Marwan Charbel in 2011 under then Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s Cabinet. The Cabinet is expected to endorse the draft law and refer the bill to Parliament for ratification before June 20, the last day of the legislature's term. The ratification of the law is expected to be coupled with the extension of Parliament's term till March 2018 to complete logistical preparations for the polls, according to Interior Minister Nouhad Mashnouq. Annahar explains the specifics of the law and voting system.
Preferential Vote Election Threshold. 2 radically different interpretations of Saudi's 'great purge' and Lebanese PM Hariri's 'resignation' Yesterday was among the most strange of days in recent Saudi history. It started with the shock resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister and Saudi citizen Saad Hariri shortly after he met with Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman and ended with the announcement that 11 princes, 4 serving ministers and around 30 ministers in total have been arrested on corruption charges, ostensibly as part of Muhammad Bin Salman’s (MBS) sweeping “reforms” to the Wahhabi Kingdom.
In between these events, Houthi rebels in Yemen fired a missile which nearly hit King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, before being intercepted by a Saudi missile. Later, Saudi media stated that the Houthi rocket was an attempt on Hariri’s life, a claim which seems quite outlandish given the crude nature of Houthi weapons. In putting the pieces of this puzzle together, it is important to explore both obvious, subtle and counter-intuitive hypotheses for what all of this means. 1. 2. Elisa Campioni - In agosto Netanyahu, #Israele, aveva... Hezbollah says Lebanon PM's resignation 'imposed' by Saudi Arabia. Welcome back, {* welcomeName *} {* loginWidget *} Welcome back! {* #signInForm *} {* signInEmailAddress *} {* currentPassword *} {* /signInForm *} Your account has been deactivated.
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Free Patriotic Movement A Christian-majority party headed by former army General Michel Aoun, who returned to Lebanon in 2005, ending a life in exile in France, which he fled to after the end of the civil war in Lebanon. Amal Movement A Shia-majority party headed by Nabih Berri, serving 23 years as parliament speaker and counting. Hariri didn’t want to give Hezbollah political cover, says Iran expert. Welcome back, {* welcomeName *} {* loginWidget *} Welcome back! {* #signInForm *} {* signInEmailAddress *} {* currentPassword *} {* /signInForm *} Your account has been deactivated. You must verify your email address before signing in. {* #resendVerificationForm *} {* signInEmailAddress *}{* /resendVerificationForm *} Please confirm the information below before signing in. {* #socialRegistrationForm *} {* firstName *} {* lastName *} {* emailAddress *} {* displayName *} {* phone *} {* addressCity *} {* addressCountry *} By clicking "Create Account", you confirm that you accept our terms of service and have read and understand privacy policy.{* /socialRegistrationForm *} Please confirm the information below before signing in.
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Le Liban encourt le « danger » d’une normalisation des relations avec Damas - Sandra NOUJEIM. Aoun to Sign Laws of Wage Scale and Tax Hikes. The Lebanese army’s thin red line. The Rap Music of Lebanon's 'You Stink' Movement | Dandin 3/4. The Republic of Procrastination | Moulahazat. Hariri: Nasrallah Speeches Don't Benefit Lebanon, Govts. Can't be Formed without Hizbullah. Lebanon tax law: Protesters turn on PM Saad al-Hariri. Assad will stay and refugees must go, says Lebanon president. Saad Hariri officially becomes Prime Minister of Lebanon – Middle East Monitor. Lebanon, China sign army aid agreement. Can Lebanon’s Old Guard forge new social contract?
An Infographic: A decade into the Cedar Revolution. How Michel Aoun Became the President | Moulahazat. Michel Aoun elected president. In Libano la partita presidenziale finisce con Teheran 1 e Ryad quasi 0. Live coverage: Lebanon elects Michel Aoun president. Michel Aoun elected as president of Lebanon | World news. Hezbollah's fate in Syria linked to Iran. One year after Lebanon's #YouStink movement: popular uprising imm. Lebanese Cabinet holds meeting without FPM. Will Lebanon’s municipal elections lead to election of a president? Lebanon deserves proportional representation in elections.
Lebanese Municipal Elections Overview: 4 Weeks Later. Why change in Lebanon is impossible. 20.14% Voting Turnout in Beirut: Beirutis Don’t Want Change … Yet. Reuters - Hariri-backed list wins Beirut vote: leader, local media. How Lebanon’s Constitutional Council Shamed the Parliament | Moulahazat. Speaker Nabih Berri during Press Conference. Arab League Designates Hezbollah as a Terrorist Organization. Raad Accuses Saudi of Obstructing Presidential Vote, Ties to Bombings. Diseases? What diseases? Can Hariri Co-exist with a Strong Christian President in Lebanon? Aounist unease as Hezbollah fails to rally partners. LIBANO. Pace di interessi tra i due nemici Aoun e Geagea.
Solution for the ongoing garbage crisis in Lebanon. Report: Aoun Forms Small Cell to Follow up on Presidential Initiative. Libano, scambio di prigionieri con al-Nusra: liberate anche ex moglie e figlia di Al Baghdadi. A potential breakup. Au Liban, sur les pavés, l'ordure. Twin blasts rock Beirut suburb, at least 37 killed. Another round of Hezbollah - Future Movement tension. WikiLeaks, Drugs and Lebanese Politicians | Moulahazat. Live Coverage: Lebanon protesters enraged by arrests, beatings. WikiLeaks and 40 Years of National Dialogues | Moulahazat. Lebanon approves plan to end garbage crisis Anadolu Agency. Lebanese government agrees on plan to end trash crisis | News | DW.COM | 09.09.2015.
My Beirut Chronicles: A couple of questions before today’s demonstration. A Fair Electoral Law For Lebanon | Moulahazat. Latest Lebanon protests fail to attract large crowds. Trois questions au romancier Élias Khoury sur la crise des déchets - Propos recueillis par Anne-Marie EL-HAGE. “Sisi scenario” for Lebanon “is now almost certain”: report. Is Iran behind Iraq and Lebanon’s ‘Awakening?’ - Al Arabiya News. “You Stink”: il Libano ai libanesi | MAKTUB. Taking Out the Trash: Lebanon’s Garbage Politics - Syria in Crisis - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Beirut Protests: 'Way out is to follow the constitution and elect a president' - Mario Abou Zeid by Radio Sputnik. Lebanon, August 2015: Notes on Paralysis, Protests, and Hope. In Libano non è guerra ai rifiuti, ma scontro politico.
Untitled. #YouStink: Recycling 'cornerstone' of solution to Lebanon garbage woes. Lebanon budget crisis puts employees’ wages at risk: Khalil. Lebanon, August 2015: Notes on Paralysis, Protests, and Hope. Beirut close to striking deal with Jabhat al-Nusra for release of servicemen. Hezbollah Weighs In On Lebanon Rubbish Row. Cracks within Hezbollah? | Middle East Briefing. The People Want Ziad Baroud (and some Radical Change) #YouStink postpones protest following Sunday chaos. Libano, i “rifiuti” del sistema. Foreign powers scramble to prop up Lebanon government. Governo Libano: 72 ore per rispondere a quattro richieste! | MAKTUB. "Nous voulons que la classe politique libanaise nous rende des comptes !" - Rita Sassine et rédaction. The groups protesting in Beirut. Une « révolution des ordures » au Liban ? Stay Unhuman: da Yarmouk a Shatila | Mauro Poggi. Lebanon government approves trash plan.