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I highly value what the Lebanese Army has done over the past two days in terms of firm measures to control security in Beirut and prevent any laxity or breach of security and public order. I hope these steps will open a new phase whose title is the extension of the state's authority fully and definitively over the entire Lebanese territory, starting with Greater Beirut, and that these measures will become a permanent and continuous approach, not remain confined to occasions or tied to specific circumstances and events.

As for what we are witnessing today of reopening the discussion on the election law, it must not under any circumstances become an entry point for wasting time or a new pretext for delaying the electoral deadline. This Council extended its own term under the pretext of force majeure and exceptional circumstances. Today, with those circumstances gone, no one has the right to act as if the extension has become an open mandate from the Lebanese people to redraw the rules of the political and electoral game to suit the interests of this or that party.

The announcement by Energy and Water Minister Joe Saddi that he is refraining from attending Cabinet sessions should constitute a serious warning to the entire government, because the Lebanese should not pay the price of obstructing reform in the electricity sector.

What has been happening recently in the electricity file is no longer acceptable under any pretext.