Indicators of Vacuity Increase: Latest Proposed Innovations!

Discussions are ongoing about a continuation of the last meeting between Presidents Michel Aoun and Najib Mikati next week, without any significant signs of a possible agreement on the government formation proposed by the designated prime minister, which was rejected by the President. There are also modifications suggested by the designated prime minister that were rejected by the head of the Free Patriotic Movement, Deputy Gebran Bassil. Talk is emerging of having a Maronite president for a transitional government similar to General Michel Aoun's government in 1989, knowing that such an event occurred before the Taif Accord. Indicators of presidential vacuum are increasing, and its complications are worsening. The latest proposed innovation is to form a committee of constitutional experts representing all sects to derive interpretations based on the results of parliamentary challenges. This raises questions such as whether the challenging candidate replaces the deputy whose candidacy was contested, or if this necessitates holding partial elections, which could create an entry point for further obstruction of the presidential entitlement. Bassil stated yesterday that the results of the parliamentary elections made his movement the largest parliamentary bloc and the largest party by votes among all sects.