Akram sent me this: "Qadri Jamil is
playing politics. So let's play politics starting with the following
question: Is this "man of principles" starting to make "concessions" and
"understandings"? And let's talk about two subjects: The corruption and the
national coalition cabinet
1- The
corruption
Jamil is known to be
the let's-root-out-the-high-profile-corruption man. During a debate organized by
NBN TV (of Nabih Berri) just before the legislative elections, Qadri Jamil said
(Arabic):
Our program can be summed in two
points: hitting the high profile corruption centers, and recuperating the looted
money…. I'm saying high profile because there's also the low profile corruption.
The thing is that the high profile corruption covers about 80% of the whole
corruption cake. High profile corrupts are limited to no more than few hundreds.
I think a bold step in this direction is necessary… The parliament bears a
historic responsibility of opening these files and holding those corrupts
accountable before the people in a transparent and public
manner…
In a previous
editorial of Kassioun, Qadri Jamil wrote (Arabic):
The sole necessary solution is to
strike the high profile corruption centers and to, promptly, redirect the
(recuperated)
resources towards the national economy… Some say such radical measures aren't
affordable considering the current situation, but I say similar measure can have
great social and political consequences that can, greatly, affect the course of
crisis in Syria
An endless number of
examples of this rhetoric can be found. Now let's look at what has been modified
during Jamil's first five minutes in the office. In a recent
interview with Qassioun (Arabic):
The vision, the concepts and the
program are all there, starting from fighting corruption of all
levels
Aha!!! So where the
"high profile corruption centers" have gone?
2- The national
coalition cabinet:
Qadri Jamil always
says his party will never participate in less than a national coalition
government. According to a statement of the Popular Will Party in June 6 (Arabic):
The party's leadership thinks
participating (in the government), in the
framework of the Popular Front for Change and Liberation, is possible only if it
was a government of national unity that includes representatives of both the
parliamentarian majority and the opposition
And then watch this
trivial shifting (Arabic):
We haven't decided yet. When the
agenda of a national coalition-like cabinet is agreed on, then we can
talk about seats
And finally the
confession (Arabic):
This isn't a cabinet like the
previous ones that were based on the old 8th article logic, but it
isn't either the national coalition cabinet that we are looking for… Given that
conditions for a perfect national coalition cabinet aren't available enough, we
accepted to participate in this cabinet in the hope that it will grow up to be a
full national coalition cabinet when the objective conditions are
there.
Slight shifting?
Could be and could be not. But let's not forget that this is the beginning only.
What I'm quite sure about is how sad and funny, at once, will be watching this
man getting rid of all those big words (weighs) in a gradual manner so he can
keep flying while the country is sinking and the "high profile" corrupts are
flourishing."
