Rule before reform

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Lebanon must use its current political and constitutional system before it begins reforms, secretary general of Lebanon’s political party The National Bloc Michel Helou says.  #Lebanon #JosephAoun

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00:00The fact that Lebanon has been without a president for more than two years, and by the way that

00:04isn't the longest that Lebanon has been without a president for in recent times, there was

00:09the period May 2014 to October 2016. Doesn't this show that this system where we have a

00:16Maronite Christian who has to be the president, the Prime Minister has to be a Sunni, the

00:21Speaker of Parliament must be a Shia, doesn't this perhaps suggest that the system does

00:27need something of an overhaul and is it likely to get one?

00:30Before an overhaul, the system needs to be applied and respected. The biggest problem

00:36that we've been facing is not the system, it's the no system or the absence of system.

00:42Because the constitution that was evolved, let's say, or rewritten in 1989, a Ta'if constitution

00:50was never applied after the end of the civil war. And this is the main issue that we're

00:55facing.

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