The repercussions of the French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian's visit to Lebanon are still ongoing, with no initiatives proposed to resolve the presidential crisis instead focusing on a request to extend the term of the army commander and announcing his return to Lebanon next January. This suggests, according to monitoring sources, that France's avenues for assisting Lebanon in resolving its crises, particularly the election of a president, are closed, indicating that completing the presidential guidelines is no longer a priority for the quintet committee.
On another front, parliamentary sources anticipated that the Speaker of the Parliament, Nabih Berri, would call for a meeting of the council's bureau in the upcoming hours to study the agenda for the legislative session and the extension of the army commander, which will be held in mid this month. According to the sources, communications have taken place away from the media between Bkirki and Ain al-Tineh regarding the extension of Army Commander Joseph Aoun, with Berri considering the disagreement over this matter to be primarily a Christian-Christian issue. He hoped that the major Christian blocs would come together to resolve the army leadership crisis just as they united to support and nominate Minister Jihad Azour. What Berri hopes for from the blocs demanding the extension of the army commander is their agreement to attend the legislative session with a complete agenda.
