BEIRUT: Politicians have no excuse for procrastinating over the election of a new Lebanese president, Maronite Beshara Rai said Saturday, accusing political parties of relying on external powers for directions.
“Today we are experiencing a sort of political death that controls our destiny as a people, and the destiny of the state,” Rai said in his fifth Easter message. “There is no constitutional excuse to boycott the presidential election sessions ... or hesitate in taking any tangible initiative to exit the vacuum situation.”
“It seems that everyone is waiting for the signal from outside.”
Rai addressed the “consciences of the political blocs” and lawmakers, calling on lawmakers to fulfill their duties by electing a president as soon as possible.
The patriarch saluted and endorsed the civil society activists who held a protest Wednesday near the Parliament that called on lawmakers attending that day's presidential election session to end the vacuum.
“The Lebanese are creating, in parallel to the political society, a civil society that is loved and appreciated by ... the officials and non-officials who visit Lebanon,” he said. “We hope that one day we will see a total unity between the two societies, the political and the civil societies.”
Rai also called for the development of Lebanon’s public schools and university, saying the educational sector should be free from politics.
“We should protect educational institutions from the intervention of politicians and the coloring of them with political or sectarian colors,” he said.
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