The game of Hariri reassignment

I wrote before that “No Lebanese gov­ern­ment before the Iraqi elec­tion”, will Hariri’s reas­sign­ment changes anything?

The prob­lem will con­tinue because there is noth­ing changed on the ground.

Egypt­ian news­pa­per Al-Ahram’s cor­re­spon­dent in Beirut wrote the following:

Some might think that the prob­lem is the rejec­tion of names of Min­is­ters nom­i­nated by Hariri or the opposition’s insis­tence on spe­cific names. The truth is far more than this, it is a regional deci­sion not to form the gov­ern­ment at the moment.

Regard­less its size, the par­lia­men­tary major­ity is just a num­ber, under the word con­sen­sus starts the bar­gain­ing and the impo­si­tion of con­di­tions. The oppo­si­tion uses its power on the ground to influ­ence and min­i­mize the deci­sion of the majority.