"He told their four truths to corrupt and irresponsible politicians, unable to agree on a government while the country is sinking before their eyes, gets carried away Eliane, history teacher in a Catholic school, between two online courses , Covid obliges.
Macron named those who put up the obstacles, they are the Shiites, Hezbollah in the lead.
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The president spared no one at a press conference devoted to Lebanon on Sunday evening, criticizing in passing the ex-Prime Minister (Sunni Muslim) Saad Hariri, accused of having introduced a "confessional" factor in the process of government formation.
But above all, he overwhelmed Hezbollah (Shiite Muslim party).
“You cannot be both an army which is waging war against Israel, a militia which participates in the conflict in Syria and a respectable party in Lebanon!
", He rebuked Hezbollah, before advising him to" not believe himself stronger than he is ".
The pro-Iranian party and its Shiite ally "Amal", led by the leader of Parliament Nabih Berry, demanded the finance portfolio. They also insisted on choosing their representatives in the government, suspecting an intention to remove them from the executive power.
This intransigence pushed the Prime Minister designate, Moustapha Adib, to throw in the towel last Saturday, and precipitate yet another political crisis in this country in the midst of economic slump.
And struck to the heart by the titanic explosion that devastated the port of Beirut on August 4.
An outburst of anger by the Shiites
"Hezbollah has never been so isolated," underlines Chafic Ghantous, an employee in a bookstore in the Gemmayzé district, one of the most affected by the disaster of August 4.
France was still the last Western country to speak to her, she seems to be losing patience ”.
Even his closest allies, such as the presidential party (Courant patriotique libre, Christian), have walled themselves in an embarrassed silence after the violent charge of Emmanuel Macron.
Receiving the French Ambassador on Monday, President Michel Aoun reaffirmed his attachment to the French initiative.
This consists of forming a mission government responsible for carrying out far-reaching reforms in order to pave the way for the international aid essential to save the country.
Aid plan conditional on cleaning up the economic and financial system, plagued by endemic corruption.
The press also applauded the French president's remarks as a whole, with the exception of the daily Al-Akhbar, which denounced the "rudeness" of his remarks.
"Emmanuel Macron has proclaimed himself guide of the Lebanese Republic", writes this newspaper close to Hezbollah.
The Shiites deny that they are solely responsible for the government blockade.
They accuse ex-Prime Minister Saad Hariri of forming the cabinet solo and yielding to pressure from the United States and Saudi Arabia who want to remove Hezbollah from the government.
The virulent and unexpected charge of Emmanuel Macron against the party, very influential in Lebanon, provoked an outburst of anger among the Shiites.
Within hours, the hashtag #Macronrespectezvoslimites was shared thousands of times on Twitter.
The comments were sometimes accompanied by photos of the Drakkar attack, perpetrated on October 23, 1983 attributed to Hezbollah (but not claimed), which had killed 58 in the ranks of French paratroopers deployed in Beirut.
Atmosphere ... "Emmanuel Macron has given up his role of arbiter in Lebanon and decided to take sides against the Shiites, he will have to suffer the consequences", regrets Ali Amhaz, insurance broker living in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of Hezbollah .
