Month: November 2007

Lahoud declared a state of emergency, so I guess the army now controls the country, any idea what is gonna happen after this?

Here’s the declaration in arabic:

صدر عن الامانة العامة لرئاسة الجمهورية ان رئيس الجمهورية بناءاً على الدستور المادتين 49 و 50 مرسوم اشتراعي 102 / 83 المدتين الاولى والثانية وبناءاً على المرسوم الاشتراعي 52 اعلان حالة الطوارئ او المنطقة العسكرية بما ان الولاية تنتهي في 23 من الجاري، زبما انه لم يتم انتخاب رئيس للجمهورية حتى تاريخه، والحكومة تفتقر الى الميثاقية الدستورية بحيث لا يسعها ممارسة السلطة بطريقة سليمة، مما ينسحب على مجلس الوزراء ومجلس الدفاع وعملاً بالتزامات رئيس الجمهورية تجاه وفي ضوء الظروف الاستثنائية يعلن رئيس توافر وتحقق اخطار حالة الطوارئ اعتباراً من 24 ت 2، 07 يكلف الجيش حفظ الامن ووضع قوى الجيش بتصرفه، عرض التدابير التي يفرضها الجيش فور تشكيل حكومة ميثتقية جديدة.

 

And btw we will get to see Lahoud leaving live on TV at 00:00 AM :D.

Update: The government is going to announce that the state of emergency is unconstitutional because apparently the constitution says that the government must announce it and it should be signed by the Minister of Defense (Source: LBCI)

Yesterday night Lahoud gave his last speech, unfortunately I was only able to watch the start of it but one thing that caught my attention is him saying he will not be able to tell us all what he managed to do during his time in office so I’ll give him some help in this post.

I first started to write everything he did but since they say “a picture can tell a thousand words” I decided to show you some pictures instead:

That’s why every European foreign minister/ President/Prime Minister is calling Damascus so a President could be elected in Lebanon!

France 5 broadcasted yesterday a 52 minutes documentary about the Gemayel Family and its martyrs. The documentary is in French and I think everyone should watch it because whether you agree with them politically or not, you can’t deny that they played a big role in Lebanon’s history.

From Ouwet.com

I am currently starting to doubt more and more that the politicians and the countries that control them will agree on a president in the next couple of days. But if they do I hope one of those guys don’t become our president for the next 6 years:

-Amine Gemayel, Well we already tried him, that’s all what I am going to say.

-Michel Eddeh, Like Frangieh once said: I thought that a Syrian tank went over him while they were withdrawing since he threatened to jump in front any withdrawing Syrian troops.

-Robert Ghanem, I hate people with no real opinion, he just takes a position that is not strong enough to make him part of a group but strong enough to make him close to it while still giving him the ability to switch sides whenever he wants.