Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Lebanon's new Prime Minister: Hezbollah takes over the power

The "Party of God" has made Nadschib Mikati the new Prime Minister of Lebanon. The billionaire is - according to the contract - discredit the UN tribunal, which investigated the assassination of former Prime Minister Hariri. Hezbollah now directs the affairs of the country at will. Beirut - He is a man with a mission: On Tuesday at the initiative of Hezbollah as the new Lebanese Prime Minister Mikati Nadschib elected by the will of the Shia party to fulfill primarily a task.


He will terminate at the appropriate time working with the UN tribunal, which investigated the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Mikati to Hezbollah and its protective power to spare Syria shame and disgrace - and will do so only to you. The billionaire is a close personal friend of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Hariri and 22 other people, bodyguards and passers-by were killed in February 2005 when a car bomb in Beirut. It seems certain that on behalf of the UN working coroner will accuse probably already in the next two months because of the men of the Hezbollah attack on Hariri. Hezbollah (in German "Party of God") is having none for months and runs a campaign against the tribunal.

Despite the pressure, was Saad Hariri, son of the murdered and to not distance two weeks ago, Prime Minister of Lebanon, by the Tribunal. Hezbollah then brought on 12 January his government of national unity to case. By now carried by Mikati their own candidate to lead the government, proves the Party of God, that the fate of Lebanon's long been deflected at will.

Seizure of power by law and the fragile balance of religious and political interest groups has shifted in recent years in favor of Shiites. Supported by Iran and Syria, they are the dominant factor of power has become in the country. This was evident by May 2008, when Hezbollah was able to decide a bloody power struggle with Sunni supporters of Hariri in a few hours for themselves.

The Christians, once a power in the Levant countries, are today politically divided and weakened by emigration in number. The current power of the Hezbollah in Lebanon was set up in the law: after Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, this week had finally defeated on the part of the Shiites, reached Hezbollah, the majority in parliament is needed to determine the head of government can.

The Party of God has thus opened a new chapter in their now almost 30-year history: VRST it no longer relies on its huge arsenal of weapons to resort to enforce their interests. Hezbollah's opponents on Tuesday remained in this new location, just impotent rage. "This is a constitutional coup," thundered Antoine Zahra, a Christian parliamentarian allied with Hariri in Beirut.

But the establishment of the Hezbollah candidates Mikati, a spotlight on the vulnerability of the militia. The UN tribunal and the pending indictment threatens to weaken the supreme good of Hezbollah: their credibility. Nor shall the Party of God in the Arab world as morally impeccable organization that is committed to the legitimate resistance against Israel.

If it turns out now that she had murdered in order to influence Lebanese politics, which would damage their reputation solid. Mikati is therefore to terminate the cooperation with the Tribunal. Then the country would stop paying for the tests, but especially not to the accused UN investigators to provide.

Mikati billionaire to control the fate of Lebanon before Mikati has promised immediately after his election, to seek reconciliation between the warring factions in Lebanon. "I extend the hand of all parties," the 55-year-old said after his first visit with President Michel Suleiman. His appointment was not a "victory of one camp against the other", but a victory of "reconciliation".

Mikati on Thursday will begin with the government. Saad Hariri has already announced a boycott of the cabinet led by Mikati. The Hariri camp had already criticized the candidacy Mikatis ahead sharply. On Tuesday, thousands took to the streets in Lebanon to protest against the alleged "treason" Mikatis.

In Mikatis Sunni city of Tripoli, it was coined native unrest, which abated in the afternoon, however. Mikati is a Sunni himself, and therefore made him their candidate Hezbollah: After the Lebanese Constitution can only be a Sunni prime minister. The Office of the President, however, is reserved for a Christian, the speaker of parliament are the Shiites.

In fact, not even the worst candidate Mikati, Lebanon to guide you through times of crisis. The Self-Made Man, who is said to have brought in the telecommunications industry on a fortune estimated at two and a half billion dollars, stood in front just after the murder of Rafik Hariri in 2005 a three-month transitional government.

In the severe riots that shook Lebanon at that time, he ruled with a cool head and surrounded himself with technocrats who held the state functional. Although he is regarded as a great friend of Damascus, Mikati was the protests against the regime of his friend Assad, who at that time was still occupied Lebanon.

The mass demonstrations eventually led to the withdrawal of Syria from Lebanon. The question is how the West will react to the new government in Beirut. The U.S. military aid since 2006 in the amount of € 530 million paid to Lebanon to bring to the country on a Western course. On Monday, the U.S.

State Department to reconsider additional aid flows should Hezbollah take a leading role in the government. Washington considers Hezbollah a terrorist organization.

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