“We hope that our partners in the homeland will meet us on a national understanding that produces a president without waiting for the outside to elect the president, since the outside has its own interests, accounts, vision and connections,” said Head of the “Baalbek Hermel” parliamentary bloc, MP Hussein al-Hajj Hassan, on Saturday.
Speaking during a political dialogue meeting organized by the “Lebanese Brigades for Resistance to the Israeli Occupation” in the town of Al-Fakha earlier today, Hajj Hassan said: “Unfortunately, we have not yet been able to elect a president of the republic because of the current parliament’s numerical and political composition…The blocs and alliances within the Parliament Council do not allow for any single party to secure 86 deputies for the legal quorum required constitutionally for the first and second election cycles…”
“Therefore, the only logical approach available is internal dialogue,” Hajj Hassan underlined.
“We, the Lebanese, have the possibility to rebuild our country and our economy, after demarcating the maritime borders and imposing our right to extract gas and oil, thanks to the Lebanese national consensus supported by the resistance, so that we do not continue to beg for money from anyone, after we had been denied this right for years by an American decision…It is enough for us to extract our wealth from under the ground and sell it to improve our country’s economic situation and liberate its political decision,” the MP continued to emphasize.
Hajj Hassan called for building a productive economy, and rectifying trade balance and trade agreements that have been signed but not yet implemented and which are to Lebanon’s favor.
He added: “We are with stable and sustainable relations with all Arab countries, all European countries and all countries of the world except for the Zionist entity. We are with relations that prevail with respect, not superior and inferior relations, and with building a healthy economy, and correcting what must be corrected in our political and economic system, combating corruption, and encouraging the return of the displaced Syrians to their homeland, and for the international community to assume its responsibilities in this regard.”
Source: National News Agency