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Why Even Hold Elections?
January 9, 2008 · Mustapha Hamoui
The 10+10+10 formula is the antithesis of Democracy. The Majority would be a fool to accept it, even with Syria causing unrest.
Warned (picture from nowlebanon.com)
I wonder if the politicians peddling the (10–10–10) formula (where each party gets 10 ministers in a 30-member cabinet) realize how ridiculous their demand is. Even the otherwise neutral Patriarch was fed up: In democracies, the Majority is supposed to rule, he announced.
Imagine how difficult it would to hold a cabinet accountable when authority is so evenly divided. Killing accountability in the name of compromise is no way to run a country. And we haven’t even started with the distribution of the super Ministries.
Moreover, the opposition keeps having impossible demands, confirming that what Syria really wants is a political vacuum in Lebanon. Mr. Omar Karami, a political cadaver from Syrian times wants “guarantees” that the Presidents’ Ministers will not switch sides like Mr. Lahhoud’s did. In other words, Mr. Sleiman is to find 10 ‘independent’ slaves with no judgment of their own.
Trying to cause a Christian inter-fighting by provoking the LF, causing unrest in the Palestinian camps and sending warning bombs to the UNIFL are all the trademark of Syrian negotiations tactics.
March 14 shouldn’t succumb.