After months of controversy, campaigns and counter-campaigns, divisions and promises, the matter was resolved. Riad Salemeh was appointed governor of the Banque du Liban for a new term of six years.
Financial pressure Lebanon has not known for many years has been printing the last few months, making the cutter market sometimes go back to waiting for news in a newspaper, or expecting an issue quoted by an official in a salon.
Financial sanctions imposed two years ago, strenuous work is being done to deal with it by balancing between not falling into the taboo and not extending the sanctions to those who are not accused of them at all.
After the success of the first phase, the climate of a serious law abolishes all previous margins with the madness of the next US administration, without being able to anticipate what it can do.
An official reference says about the draft leaked to the sanctions that it is a war on Lebanon, and what is needed is to prepare for it and use the various Lebanese papers in it.
The cabinet’s decision to renew Riad Salameh’s term should turn into a countdown to contain what Lebanon lost the previous time, and start the countdown to launch the plan and deal with the proposed sanctions.
It is not a question of today’s position. It is a matter of confidence, ability, experience and serious challenges, amid an area on the line of earthquakes and confrontations expected and financial pressures .. unless of course in the minds of those who believe that all this was a pipe dream, and a necessary marketing strategy for the extension only.
