So I’ll start by beating the hell out of the 60, just to follow the trend of our political refrains…. To hell with this 60′s electoral law. Now that’s done, back to what’s being debated today:
Orthodox law?!? I am speechless…
Why do these MPs want to forbid me, to vote for what I would qualify as a Good candidate in my casa, even if he is born from another religion?
I do not understand the logic that says: we are a confessionally divided country so let us be pragmatic about it and make a confessional law so to choose our representatives. It is like the first world saying: we are a multi-racial country let us have each race vote for its own racial candidates…. What made them first world countries, is the fact that they didn’t accept to go down this road, instead they chose the hard path, not the pragmatic reality of things, but the effort to change it…
I do not expect less from patriarch Rai, after all he is the patriarch, from a catholic school, I need not say more… Nor do I expect form any religious figure other than managing my after life.
As for the MPs (and ex-minister), the persons that should manage my everyday’s issues, and the real persons that are working towards that: Shame on you! You were entrusted to lead the country into a better future not into moral regression! If we are refusing the obsolete 1960 law, then the Orthodox law is most suitable to the past millennium, the era of the Christian Crusades and Islamic Fateh…
And if all that is a political bluff, then Shame on you twice, once for not being straight forward, and a second time for not accepting mutual concessions for the well being of the citizens of this country…
Finally, I recommend you think twice of the outcome of such law, and I am not talking about the outcome of the elections as winners or losers, rather of the outcome of our society’s culture and humanity and the outcome that will definitely lead your sons and daughters to become yet more Lebanese expats…
My vote remains a white ballot for this one.
You said it all Mr. Abou Jamra. But threatening of what will happen in the future is not enough. We are living today and we need a solution today. What you said reflects exactly what 80% of Lebanese are talking about discretely. But they cant announce fearing that they will be weird among their religious or political community they are living or chose to live within. We need a wider movement. A movement that will give everyone a wake up call to reconsider the Lebanon they are dreaming of. A MASS MOVEMENT… that’s what we want and nothing else
Hi Mr Ali,
Thank you for your comment.
I think I need to clarify one things:
I am in no posture to threaten, neither by choice nor by nature. I am simply doing the best that I, citizen Fadi, can do today: state my opinion and fears… So no threat is meant to anyone even towards the politicians that do nothing but that, and do apologize if it was understood as such.
Now to the action part: I am a citizen with an option, I am not a politician nor a government official and not a party leader: my size is myself, my voice my vote & my responsibility. As you said it: I am part of this 80% …
So here I, as much as any individual of these 80%, can claim my action as a citizen: that is my vote & my influence, a choice I firmly believe it refuses all the mediocrity of the current players yet keeps me attached to my homeland: a simple white ballot.