Emmanuel Macron has not lost all hope of helping to overcome the political and financial crisis in which Lebanon is plunged. After various attempts that have remained without much effect to date, he intends to regain the initiative in this regard. “Lebanon’s problem is to solve people’s problems and free those who don’t know how to do it”he said on his return from Jordan in an interview with Mondeau Wall Street Journal and the Lebanese daily An-NaharWednesday, December 21. “The strategy is that you need honest people, ready to say : “we disinterest the clans and they stop living on the back of the beast”. We must change the leadership of this country”he continued.
The Head of State had first imagined going to Lebanon with the French soldiers of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, to celebrate Christmas, but he preferred to do it aboard the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, deployed off Egypt, in the Red Sea. “The situation of Lebanese non-decision also means that it is not the best time to go there and France’s role is not to replace the Lebanese political forces”he justifies, while the blockage persists to elect a new president to replace General Michel Aoun. “What interests me are the Lebanese men and women. Not those who live on their backs. The question is: does the caste living in Lebanon have the courage to change? »he wonders, implying that the answer is negative.
“Lebanon is dear to me”
The French president, however, does not want to abandon the country to its sad fate. “Lebanon is dear to mehe said. We’re going to be working hard on it over the next few weeks. » The task promises to be difficult again, Emmanuel Macron promising “to try to come up with a plan, to help Prime Minister Najib Mikati who is still trying to do as much as he can, to give in nothing to those who have become rich in recent years and who would like stay and who are blackmailing, and that we have an honest president and prime minister”.
” Unfortunately, he adds, I see many young people leave, sad, discouraged. I would dream that they could do it, so my answer is to try to help the emergence of an alternative political solution but by making concrete projects. »
“I have been convinced from the start that the Lebanese, Syrian and beyond issues can only be resolved if we find a framework for discussion that includes Iran”, Emmanuel Macron
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