Lebanese government of July 2005

The Lebanese government of July 2005 was formed on 19 July 2005 by Fuad Siniora. All major political blocs were included, with the exception of the Free Patriotic Movement ( Tayyar Al Mustaqbal ) guided block headed by General Michel Aoun.

On 11 November 2006, the five Hezbollah and its related Amal belonging ministers submitted their resignations. The move was made ​​after talks on a national unity government had also failed because Hezbollah itself demanded eight cabinet members, which would have automatically brought her the opportunity to bring a veto cabinet decisions and the Cabinet as a whole to case. Another pro- Syrian ministers resigned on November 13, 2006.

On 21 November, the Minister of Industry Pierre Gemayel Jr. was assassinated.

Members

  • Political orientation: Ministers are or are not formally members of political parties and movements, but they are generally connected in some way.
  • The Future Movement, led by Saad Hariri is part of a larger alliance, the Rafik Hariri Martyr List, which also includes the Qurnat - Schahwan Collection, the Progressive Socialist Party and the Lebanese Forces.
  • Supporters of President Émile Lahoud.
  • The Qurnat - Schahwan Collection is an alliance of Kata'ib, led by the former President Amine Gemayel, the National Liberal Party, led by Dory Chamoun, and a number of other Christian -run parties. The Qurnat - Schahwan Collection Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir called, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch as its leader.
  • Lebanese Forces, a movement led by Samir Geagea, who was imprisoned nearly a decade before his release on 26 July 2005.
  • Progressive Socialist Party - led by Walid Jumblatt.
  • Hezbollah, a fundamentalist Shiite party, led by Hassan Nasrallah.
  • Amal Movement, led by the Speaker of the Assembly, Nabih Berri.
  • Yakoub Sarraf had resigned after riots in Beirut on 6 February 2006 and was represented officiating in the subsequent period by Ahmad fatfat, but returned to his office on November 24, 2006.

Government crisis in November 2006

After the negotiations on a veto for Hezbollah had failed, five Shiite ministers ( four Hezbollah, one of the Amal movement belonging ) have resigned. The same step undertook two days later another, Orthodox Christian minister. Prime Minister Siniora, however, has not accepted the resignation of the Minister. The Lebanese President Émile Lahoud called more Cabinet meetings as " unconstitutional and useless" and said the government had lost its legitimacy. The former President Amine Gemayel retorted that a cabinet decisions on the draft law on the formation of an international tribunal in connection with the attack on the convoy of Rafiq al -Hariri on 14 February 2005 without the retired minister " would be valid and constitutional justice to one hundred percent ". The government of Prime Minister Siniora 's ability to act, as it has in the Parliament on a sufficient majority.

Several Lebanese politicians have the resignations interpreted as an attempt to derail the international tribunal. Wael Bou Faour Member of Parliament criticized the move and notes that "we now know who supports the Lebanese sovereignty and who is not and who wants to [ Syrian President ] Bashar al -Assad to protect. " The head of the Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir described the behavior of Hezbollah ministers as " rejection" of international support for Lebanon.

On Monday, November 13, 2006, the Lebanese Cabinet has nevertheless unanimously made ​​the decision with the ministers attending the meeting in favor of the UN tribunal.

The Cabinet therefore agreed on the draft statutes of an international tribunal for condemnation of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al -Hariri and other assassinations of anti-Syrian politicians and journalists accused. From the movement of the 14th March, Hezbollah was accused of wanting to prevent the withdrawal of the Minister, the Tribunal. Samir Geagea, leader of the Lebanese Forces warned in an interview with Reuters on November 17, 2006, attacks on members of the Cabinet, to overthrow the government.

Assassination of Pierre Gemayel Jr.

On 21 November 2006 gunmen have the Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel Jr. assassinated. Thus, seven Cabinet members have failed. The strength of the Cabinet now reached just under the quorum.

The resigned in February 2006 because of the cartoon crisis and related turmoil in Beirut Interior Minister Hassan Saba, who was meanwhile represented by the Minister of Sport and Youth Ahmad fatfat has revoked junior his resignation after the assassination of Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel and is on 24 November 2006 returned to the cabinet. The Lebanese government will be dissolved automatically according to the constitution, if a third of the ministers resigned or fails for other reasons.

Footnotes

Najib Miqati I ( 2005) | Fouad Siniora I ( 2005) | Fuad Siniora II ( 2008) | Saad Hariri ( 2009) | Najib Miqati II ( 2011) | Tammam Salam (2013 )

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