Lebanon

Secrets of Lebanese Newspapers

Secrets of Lebanese Newspapers

**An-Nahar** - An old ideological party is preparing for its general conference, while at the same time, it is absent from the electoral and political scene. - An ambassador from a neighboring country, commissioned by his president, succeeded in calming a heated dispute within an ancient party experiencing divisions and managed, along with the former party president and a current deputy, to crystallize the nominations and pass them with allies. - One of the party deputies returned empty-handed from abroad after conducting a party tour in Arab countries and Lebanese communities to collect donations.

**Al-Jomhouria** - It is known that the Maronite seat in the Baalbek-Hermel region will go to the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, which has adopted the nomination of a woman for the seat. - A candidate for the elections in a northern constituency is working on forming a list, excluding an alliance with another candidate from the same sect who carries the same sovereignty discourse. - An under-the-table agreement was recorded between a prominent candidate in Beirut, the head of a political bloc, and a senior party official, whereby they would have a say in choosing members for his list in exchange for a promise to assign him to form the next government.

**Al-Liwaa** - European ambassadors are interested in knowing how many current deputies have been nominated by the ruling parties responsible for the collapse of the country's overall situation! - Ministerial sources are recording grievances about limiting judicial procedures to one or more banks, with calls for an official, judicial, and popular position to save deposits and banks. - Close associates of Christian blocs reveal the scale of the decline that most of them are suffering from, with eyes open to the rising movement!

**Nidaa Al-Watan** - Hezbollah recently initiated communication with several Sunni figures representing Beirut families, trying to persuade them to adopt their nomination, promising to secure electoral outcomes for them, but faced their outright rejection due to fears of sanctions if they join its list. - Observers have interpreted the Syrian dispute over the nominations of Ba'athists Ali Hijazi and Assem Qansooh, as well as General Jamil al-Sayyed in northern Bekaa, as evidence of weak Syrian leadership and the emergence of factions under Bashar al-Assad's presidency, reminiscent of conditions before his father's death. - It was said that the price of a political bloc's dinner ticket on a historic anniversary was 200 fresh dollars per person.

**Al-Anbaa** - Despite Hezbollah's relentless attempts to obscure its plan to target sovereign political forces, specifically the Progressive Socialist Party, the statement by the party's Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah yesterday confirmed the existence of this scheme. - Negative reverberations are ongoing within a supportive bloc due to the way the electoral process is managed and the absolute discretion of the bloc's leader.

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