Bkerki was not grateful for the Council of Ministers convening normally in the absence of the President of the Republic, nor for replacing the signature of the President of the Republic on decrees with two signatures of the Prime Minister, nor for changing the custom that required during the era of Prime Minister Tammam Salam's government to the signature of all members of government.
Patriarch Mar Beshara Boutros al-Rahi, who delivered his speech in a sermon last Sunday before leaving for Jordan, broke his silence for the first time after the storm. In response to a question by LBCI, he said: "The session should not have taken place, especially since there were many absent parties."
Consequently, communication is underway on more than one level with parties, including Hezbollah, and if it matures, Bkerki will invite a delegation from Hezbollah, according to the sources.
So Bkerke is dissatisfied with what happened regarding the session, as well as with how all parties managed the presidential vacuum. The patriarch expressed this to LBCI: "We are not yet serious; maybe we were asleep."
According to sources, the patriarch does not enter into nominations, but today he is listening to the demands of all parties.
The most important thing that al-Rai agreed upon with the Free Patriotic Movement leader, MP Gebran Bassil, is that Christians cannot be in the position of recipients to choose a president for the republic.