Bassil: It would be a crazy act if Mikati does not form new gov, would lead to constitutional chaos

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Bassil: It would be a crazy act if Mikati does not form new gov, would lead to constitutional chaos
Head of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Gebran Bassil said on Tuesday that “it would be a crazy act” if caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati does not form a new government before the six-year term of President Michel Aoun ends on Oct. 31. 
“We do not need in addition to our financial and economic crisis, a political crisis that splits the people on how to deal with the government,” Bassil said to the Associated Press about the possibility of the government taking over once Aoun leaves office. He added that not forming a Cabinet will lead to “constitutional chaos.”
“We will not accept that such a government runs the country. This is a Cabinet that did not win a vote of confidence and lacks constitutional legitimacy,” Bassil added.
As for the border deal with Israel, Bassil stressed that “although this agreement is not a normalization process with Israel, but it helps the country, to restore more stability in the region where we need to attract the investors.” 
“I think that the equation established with the strength or the force of Hezbollah and the threat to use it is what helped,” Bassil added in reference to Hezbollah and its weapons.
“It is the gas era and Lebanon should not be outside of it,” Bassil said, adding that demand for gas around the world triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine since late February helped seal the deal.
“We had the guarantees, clearly, from the U.S. and also from France and Total that once this is done ... Total as block operator will restart its petroleum activities offshore Lebanon,” Bassil concluded by saying.
 

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