The funniest part: "he must refer his doubters to the Constitution"... Hariri's nowlebanon scare tactics, here
"... It is a bleak but plausible scenario. If it comes about, it will have been because March 14 has made fatal concessions – Doha and the unity government formula of 15-5-10 being the biggest.It is now 100 days since those elections and the nation’s waters have been suitably muddied. Pressure is being applied from inside and out. The opposition – notably Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun – is calling the shots ....But we forget one thing – well two, actually. March 14 has a majority and it has the constitution on its side. We remind its politicians of this fact because the people who went to the ballot boxes and who voted against a return to benign rule from Damascus, and for a country founded on the notion of full sovereignty, and all that goes with it, should not have to endure a reversal of what was a genuine and fair victory at the polls.Already a sense of national disaffection has set in. The country is running (after a fashion) and, such is the level of disillusionment that Lebanese are almost ready to accept any formula just to restore a level of normality to their lives. It is a mindset that opposition has sought to create from the moment its defeat was formally announced on June 8 through a policy of attrition to destroy March 14’s credibility and with it the sense of majority.Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri must regain the high ground. He must send a clear message to the Lebanese people that he will not accept compromise; that compromise can only lead to stagnation. He must insist on his right as the leader of the majority to rule as a majority and be held accountable as a majority. He must refer his doubters to the constitution and tell them in no uncertain terms that it is not only his privilege as leader of the winning bloc to form a genuine majority but that it has now become a moral obligation to the nation to do so."
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