Lebanon witnessed on Sunday a new security incident that nearly ignited the internal war between the Lebanese after an armed clash and a Lebanese minister was shot during a car tour in Mount Lebanon.
This is not the first incident of its kind in recent years and this is a dangerous sign that the region, which has long been characterized by calm, is threatened by crises and security risks. The incident of yesterday requires special attention to what has been done on the ground to try to prevent Lebanese from exercising their democratic right to express their political opinion in any Lebanese region.
Lebanese Foreign Minister and President of the Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil attended a political tour to Mount Lebanon despite the political and media clashes between his party and the Progressive Socialist Party of former MP Walid Jumblatt, who has long been considered a political and security region.
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Free Patriotic Movement in the Mountain
However, with the changes and political changes in the region in general and in Lebanon in particular, the equations of the Taif political agreement expired and the previous political compromises are not compatible with the current political developments and thus generated on the Lebanese arena new political forces and currents with their weight and strong presence today. The new forces are trying to expand their political influence at the expense of the declining political forces, prompting the Socialists to take a decision to close the area to the arrivals from the "Shabak" and not from the door, according to Lebanese Education Minister Akram Shahib. "We are advocates of maintaining harmony and coexistence, There is a difference between democratic political practice and the removal of party doors. "
Jumblatt's supporters closed the mountain roads in protest against Bassil's political tour after political and sectarian mobilization culminated in the passing of Minister Saleh al-Gharib in the mountainous area of Qabrishmoun. This led to the armed clash after an attempt to expose the minister personally, which led to tension between the party elements. At this level in the Mount Lebanon region.
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Leader of the Progressive Socialist Party Walid Jumblatt
The Lebanese MP and the head of the Lebanese Democratic Party, Talal Arslan, said that the car of Minister Saleh al-Gharib received about 18 or 19 bullets, one of which hit the car seat behind his head. In addition to the killing of two of his companions after an armed clash with supporters of Jumblatt in the region.
Sources also told the Lebanese "bulletin" that the Supreme Council of Defense after its meeting considered that what happened on Sunday is an assassination attempt for ministers and deputies.
For its part, the newspaper "Al-Akhbar" in the Lebanese newspaper said that the incident came from a design by the Socialist leader Walid Jumblatt, which is disturbed in the recent period of the subject of appointments among political forces in addition to the inability to adapt to the presence of other political forces play a role in the region Historically considered "socialist".
May Allah have mercy on the Lebanese national leader Kamal Jumblat …
(The article expresses the opinion of its author)
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