Kifah Al-Kassar, the Mayor of Bbinin, urged the Lebanese people to assert their right to express their rights and choices in local development, proper management of resources, and the organization of cities and towns after ongoing assaults by the corrupt authority on these violated rights by decision-makers who know only dominance, trampling the public good, and indulging in the misuse of power, which has led to the decay of the state and subjected the people to the largest act of theft and looting in the history of this suffering nation at the hands of gangs that destroy citizens' lives in all aspects.
Al-Kassar viewed the steps taken by the Minister of Interior and Municipalities, Bassam Mawlawi, in calling for the electoral bodies and setting a date for municipal elections as a positive move that deserves support and endorsement. He urged him to remain steadfast in his position and not retreat in the face of the tricks of political forces seeking to bury this necessary democratic entitlement to rebuild local authorities and empower them to regain their strength and provide citizens with their rights in local development.
Al-Kassar considered that the positions of political forces regarding the municipal election entitlement define their standing with the Lebanese public, and any attempt to delay this entitlement is a blow directed at the Lebanese people as a whole. Today serves as the last witness before the ruling on the collapse of the principle of state order and administration in this country, and it is incumbent upon those with a sense of conscience to engage in the battle for conducting municipal elections with all their energy and political, media, and popular capabilities.
