In a normal country, an official like Riad Salameh, whom "The Economist" has labeled "the worst central bank governor in the world," would not have ended his tenure as Lebanon's Central Bank governor to the cheers of associates, who met him in the back door. Salameh, whom the French and German…
Despite two positive developments, Qatar taking the initiative and calling for a “Quintet Meeting” and reports of the French President’s Envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian making a second visit, Lebanon remains without a president. This vacuum, which twelve parliamentary sessions could not fill, seems like…
Lebanon’s presidential vacuum has almost completed its eighth month. The “loyalty” group, as well as the “opposition” bloc and those who joined its ranks from the “intersection” with the Aounist movement, succeeded in falsifying the real division in the country that emerged from the “October 17”…
May 16 is just a few days away. In just a few days, Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh is scheduled to appear before the French judge Aude Buresi in Paris as part of the investigation into corruption and money laundering charges. Many questions about the great Lebanese theft could be answered that…
The scene was surreal in the Palace of Justice. The governor of the Central Bank, Riad Salameh - who stood aghast after the fall of his arguments on “sovereignty” to avoid appearing before the European judiciary - found himself after three decades of fake “successes” before a court authority.
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As the collapse in Lebanon expands, it is becoming increasingly apparent that so long as the August 4 clique is in power, there is no floor for how low the Lira could fall. With it, citizens’ ability to survive plummets too. A frightening number of patients are unable to access the medicine and…
Many rolled their eyes as they heard Prime Minister Najib Mikati claim that anyone shown to have been involved in the killing of Irish UNIFIL peacekeeper Sean Rooney would be punished! No one in Lebanon was surprised to see him angrily ask what has happened to the investigation days after the crime…
Is it true that fundamentalism dominates the climate created by the October 17 revolution, hindering the crystallization of “solutions” through the election of a president who could save the country and set it on the right track?
Is it fair, at a time when collapses are destroying the lives of…
All of a sudden, everyone was inspired to bring down the wall that had been obstructing the formation of a government, accepting the proposal that Mikati had submitted around three months ago. All that remains is minor adjustments that will not affect shares or the figures that the various…
The Lebanese scene is surreal, sad, and funny:
The government vacuum continues, and no government that responds to the punitive votes cast on May 15 to a minimal degree will be allowed to take form.
The parties to the regime of sectarian-quota-based spoil-sharing have accepted that electing a…