Local newspaper secrets released on Thursday 22 December 2022
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It was reported that the Lebanese attended the World Cup in Qatar at a high pace and by whole families, and most of them lived with relatives and friends.
A state of confusion prevails over how to handle home loans in a number of banks that refuse to pay the borrower what he owes, pending the adoption of a new price for the official dollar.
Representatives of a prominent bloc avoid taking sides due to lack of clarity in the framework of the scene and the presidential elections in particular, with the directives and auspices of their political authority.
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Republic
Despite excluding 70 percent of his supporters from blacklists in a partisan sector, one of the candidates managed to breach the party leader’s list with 5 out of 11 delegates eligible to attend and vote in the General Conference.
A senior party official assured the ambassador of a major country that it was preposterous to suppose we would acquiesce to a president against our will.
One of the officials received a report from an Arab country, which includes a denial by a senior official of that country, who would have recommended one of the candidates for the presidency of the republic.
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Major General
Information about an American diplomatic activity that arrived in Beirut, was limited to activities in its country’s embassy, and then left!
More than one lawsuit against a “wayward judge” has been filed, and it’s unclear what will be resolved in the coming year.
Banks have opened a window for new accounts and canceled existing accounts, with no possibility of using them, as they have turned into a situation similar to “hidden deposits in banks”?!
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home call
The former President of the Republic, Michel Aoun, does not hesitate to assure his visitors that the most important reasons which prompt the head of the “Free Patriotic Movement” Gebran Bassil to reject the candidacy of the army commander, Joseph Aoun, for the presidency of the republic, is the fear of the formation of a popular sentiment that eats into the plate of the “movement”.
Property sales in the Ashrafieh area appear to have returned to what they were before the decision to halt them following the port explosion. Sales transactions are registered with notaries, which prevents them from being known and counted. The decision was made to halt the sales that individuals and businesses have been trying to conduct, taking advantage of deteriorating conditions and luring homeowners with new dollars.
One of the officials of a prominent current who has recently worked in “business”, at a large level and in more than one field, does not hesitate to say that he is preparing to devote himself to his own business to neglect partisan affairs.
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Building
A regional diplomatic reference said the Amman summit was unnecessary, and that Iraq, for which it was held, did not benefit from it, and that turning it into a platform for Iranian-Saudi or Iranian-European dialogue is failed, leaving only show work to show French patronage for holding a summit that includes the region’s presidents and leaders. .
A political source confirmed that the search for internal and external opportunities to overcome the presidential impasse is closed unless decisive changes occur abroad or at home, especially in terms of the American approach to the region and a return to settlements or a major financial meltdown forcing a change in alignments and options.
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Between the two holidays, the Kataeb Party intends to take an initiative against the “opposition forces”, especially the Lebanese Forces and the Progressive Socialist Party, by proposing to complete the presidential election battle with a new candidate, or the former deputy Salah Hanin or current deputy Nima Afram, given that the candidacy of deputy Michel Moawad proved unsuccessful after the number of his votes turned out to be under forty, while either Hanin or Ephrem can attract the votes of deputies from the “ changes” and from other blocks such as the Akkar block. Note that Al-Saifi saves Lavram for helping him in the success of MP Salim Al-Sayegh, while accusing Moawad of having “kidnapped” MP Adeeb Abdel-Masih, who wanted him in the Phalange block.
Dissatisfaction with the Lebanese Forces, Saifi’s Kataeb House prevails, as the Falangists believe that Maarab’s strong statement of rejection of President Nabih Berri’s invitation to dialogue prompted them to take a similar decision after they intended to meet her. Al-Saifi circles say the declaration of forces was not directed against Ain al-Tineh but rather against the Kataeb party to embarrass it into joining the position of forces. The deliberations of the Kataeb Central House confirm that the party will accept any future calls for dialogue, and will no longer accept to play the role of vehicle for Samir Geagea’s locomotive.
Former MP Yassin Jaber and Representative Ali Hassan Khalil hold regular meetings with the governor of the Banque du Liban in the context of discussions on upcoming monetary fiscal policies, in connection with President Nabih Berri’s decision to appoint Jaber as finance minister in the first new government to be formed after the election of a new President of the Republic.
The results of the examinations conducted by the State Security Apparatus for the acceptance of 20 non-commissioned officers distributed by seven have not been disclosed. And it turned out that the quota dispute was behind the issuance of a memorandum to halt work on the results of the session after interim prime minister Najib Mikati lobbied for all successful Sunnis to have their share. , and another exercised by the representative Gebran Bassil so that the Christian officers had his share.
Prime Minister Najib Mikati is still refraining from sending the House of Representatives a bill to restructure the banking sector, despite his promises to ask MPs to introduce the bill in the form of a bill. Some deputies affiliated with the banks have launched a pressure campaign to refer the project to the Finance and Budget Commission and then to the Administration and Justice Commission, with the aim of delaying its approval as much as possible.
Security reports have tracked the presence of individual weapons sold in Lebanon of the type of weapons (mostly snipers) that NATO sends as military aid to Ukraine. Some of this aid is likely to end up in the hands of Ukrainian gangs working to smuggle quantities of it into Turkey to be sold on the black market in neighboring countries. From Turkey, the bulk of these weapons goes on sale in the Iraqi market, and another part arrives in the hands of militants in Syrian areas outside the control of the army, from which quantities of individual weapons enter Lebanon.
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The question of smuggling has returned to the fore, again without any intervention or intervention.
External movement towards Lebanon in the coming days, but the missions will be reconnaissance.
