Despite the holding of an election, Lebanon is bogged down

In Beirut

The legislative elections of May 15 are far from solving the multidimensional crisis that Lebanon is going through.

They even accentuate the risk of a new lasting vacancy at the head of the executive, while the country needs more than ever to stop its economic and social collapse.

For its last Council of Ministers, the outgoing government was content to adopt on the sly a roadmap concocted by the IMF, without any real appropriation by any of the components of power.

And the national currency, stabilized over the past three months at a depreciated rate of 90% compared to 2019, has already started its fall again.

The operation intended to contain social anger during the election cost more than 2 billion dollars in four months, while the injections of liquidity from the IMF,

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