Al-Rahi Urges Naming PM who Can Confront Challenges
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday called for appointing a new premier who has the ability to confront the country’s huge challenges.
“We call on all political forces to close ranks under their national responsibility, consult among each other, and name in the upcoming parliamentary consultations a Sunni figure for the PM post who would be at the level of the current challenges,” al-Rahi said in his Sunday Mass sermon.
He added that the political forces should “cooperate to speed up the formation process.”
“It is the time for shouldering responsibilities, not retreating, seeing as the country is not facing an ordinary governmental crisis but rather an all-out national crisis that requires the unification of everyone’s efforts,” al-Rahi went on to say.
He also called on politicians to “rise above the selfishness, interests and narrow electoral calculations that are unfortunately controlling the minds of the majority of political forces at the expense of the higher national interest.”
Source: Naharnet
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