Maronite Patriarch Beshara Boutros Rai said that “the time has come for all the Lebanese people, deputies and parliamentary blocs to be conscious, calling on them to realize the atrocity of failing to elect a new president, and the paralysis it has resulted at the parliament and the public institutions.
In his holy sermon delivered during Sunday’s mass in Bkerke, Rai added that the presidential vacuum has been also affecting the cabinet, hindering the administrative appointments and obstructing the work at the embassies.