Rahi: To keep judiciary away from political polarizations

Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rahi called on Lebanese officials to keep the judicial corps away from the vicious circle of polarizations and political polemic.

"We wish the judiciary, which was one of Lebanon's platforms, to escape from the hand of politicians and influential people, so that its formations would not remain frozen, its rulings would not be postponed, nor a tool for malicious accusations," Patriarch Rahi said.

Rahi deemed that the aim of holding the international conference for Lebanon is to enable the Lebanese State to regain its life, vitality, positive neutrality, impartility and its role as a stabilizing factor in the region.

"Just as the Taif Agreement succeeded in ending the civil war, we hope that the international conference will reform and return Lebanon from the stumbling block to its previous era," he noted.

Rahi considered that replacing Judge Fadi Sawan with a new judicial investigator to investigate the port explosion would return us to Square Zero and prove the need for cooperation with international investigators.



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