{"id":9350,"date":"2020-06-06T21:47:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T18:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmfidawla.com\/2020\/06\/06\/md-arabiya\/"},"modified":"2020-06-06T23:16:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T20:16:32","slug":"md-arabiya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmfidawla.com\/en\/2020\/06\/06\/md-arabiya\/","title":{"rendered":"Expecting the collapse: Meet Lebanon\u2019s young political party ready to take power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-4qhcvh-39b5c39c192e9822cc2af8d23396cadb\">\n.flex_column.av-4qhcvh-39b5c39c192e9822cc2af8d23396cadb{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-4qhcvh-39b5c39c192e9822cc2af8d23396cadb av_three_fourth  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-jo02aj9o-c747e19ade06532efadb9eaf2e11a914 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Expecting the collapse: Meet Lebanon\u2019s young political party ready to take power<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='hr av-36ctod-04a0923b74485b06d58a63d634bda0b4 hr-default  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-jpa4dlb3-7f844daeec652e2e27d9eba858697598 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Interview of Mounir Doumani from &#8220;Mouwatinoun wa Mouwatinat fi Dawla&#8221; conducted by Lauren Holtmeier and published on June 5th on the Al Arabiya English website on this <a href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/en\/features\/2020\/06\/05\/Expecting-the-collapse-Meet-Lebanon-s-young-political-party-ready-to-take-power.html\">link<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">As Lebanon stands on the brink of collapse, and some say a complete overhaul of the country\u2019s governance is needed, a young political party is fighting to emerge from the shadows to shepherd the country to a more secular future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">When I first spoke to Mounir Doumani, a representative of a fledgling Lebanese political party, he told me his party was \u201cwaiting for the complete collapse of the state\u201d so that they could step in and begin a new era of governance for the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"leaderboard hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"adSlot-paragraph\">It was January 2019, nearly nine months before mass protests broke out in October.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">At the time, I thought he was overly optimistic, if not to say crazy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Catching up with him a year and a half later, he corrects me. His party Mouwatinoun wa Mouwatinat fi Dawla (Citizens in a State) aren\u2019t waiting for Lebanon to collapse \u2013 they are expecting it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">He said \u201cwaiting\u201d seemed passive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cOnly in moments of crisis, political or economic, can you change the power structure,\u201d he told me during our meeting in Beirut in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">I remember nodding politely, perhaps in my own naivety as a fresh journalist only in her first few months working in Beirut, with a shallow understanding of the depth of the country\u2019s problems or the fragility of the political bedrock.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Early warning signs<\/h2>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Long before October 2019, experts in Lebanon had already begun to warn that the country\u2019s shaky political foundations had led to a precarious situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Ziad Abdel Samad noted that experts had begun raising the alarm in 2016 as the central bank began its first in a series of unorthodox financial engineering mechanisms designed to protect the local currency that has now lost over half its value. Samad is the co-founder and executive director of the Beirut-based Arab NGO Network for Development and recently spoke during Al Arabiya English\u2019s webinar, Lebanon&#8217;s unprecedented crisis, challenges and paths forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">In a January 2019 article in Lebanese monthly magazine le Commerce du Levant, the Citizens in a State Secretary General Charbel Nahas said: \u201cWe believe that Lebanon has entered a pre-crisis phase and that the current political system can neither avoid it nor face it \u2026 But we fear that an uncontrolled crisis will have a devastating effect on the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The dollar squeeze began to hit home in mid-2019, but in January, Nahas told the French-language magazine, \u201cSince the Lebanese economy is not competitive \u2013 producing almost nothing and importing everything \u2013 the loans in national currency induce a currency outflow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe probability of a crisis occurring is extremely high. We can\u2019t predict it mathematically, but the developments we see every day seem to point in that direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">On the brink<\/h2>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">In May 2020, Doumani and I spoke again, amid a resurgence in the protests that had begun back in October. Despite a new, supposedly technocratic government headed by Prime Minister Hassan Diab, the Lebanese people had become increasingly frustrated with the worsening economic situation, rising inflation spurred by a dollar shortage, and a decades-old corrupt regime more concerned with sectarian politics than governing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">As increasingly hungry protesters took to torching banks, I asked Doumani how his party envisions securing the right to govern \u2013 and what its proposals are to guide Lebanon through a time of crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIt will happen through something called negotiated peaceful transition of power,\u201d he told me bluntly and confidently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">He pointed to examples including North Africa and General Charles de Gaulle\u2019s rise to power through election in France. In the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011, Tunisia became what some say is a potential model for democratic transition as the country\u2019s former ruler Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali fled the country within a month of the uprising\u2019s onset, and by 2013, legislators had implemented a law to set up a transitional justice process to expose human rights abuses committed by the government and hold perpetrators accountable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s no violence,\u201d he said. \u201cIt means that it doesn\u2019t end with whoever wins a revolution in power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Citizens in a State was formed in 2016 and is led by Secretary General Charbel Nahas, who has served both as labor and telecommunications minister and is a former World Bank economist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe name is really long, unsexy and unmarketed, but we really wanted the name to reflect the mission of the party. The party has one objective \u2013 to establish a state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The power of the ballot box?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Despite its grand goals, the party failed to win a single seat in the 2018 parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Doumani, however, put this down to the problems with the current electoral system in Lebanon, with sectarian quotas ensuring a balance of power among Christian, Shia, and Sunni constituencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cElections are a tool used by the regime to renew legitimacy; they\u2019ll never produce a result based on secular legitimacy,\u201d said Doumani.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">While the party did win two seats in two different municipalities in 2016, Doumani said that even then the party could see the state needed to change radically, and therefore focused on driving significant change rather than just winning seats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cMaybe it was too early to say it, but we knew it was going to happen, so we tried to bring people together, but that takes an understanding of the reality of the situation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">And now, with Lebanon inching closer to collapse, Doumani said elections cannot be relied upon to drive change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cElections will not be on the table, not now, not in the near future,\u201d he said, explaining that elections don\u2019t work while the state is on the verge of collapse as no one party can claim true legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">In a country with stronger institutions capable of dealing with such a situation, such as in France that allowed de Gaulle to come to power, elections could work, he explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Doumani\u2019s criticisms of the electoral process were shared by experts who took part in Al Arabiya English\u2019s webinar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Samad said that while people have called for early elections, in Lebanon the decision-making process happens outside institutions by informal groups, armed or unarmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">One problem is the role of Iran-backed political and military group Hezbollah, which has a strong influence over Lebanese politics and backs the Diab government against protesters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI doubt that any election or political process can lead to change unless we really engage with the constitution,\u201d Samad said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">An article in the Lebanese constitution calls for an elected body to be formed to abolish the \u201cpolitical confessionalism according to a transitional plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">But in reality, the country\u2019s power-sharing system, in place since the end of the country\u2019s 15-year civil war, allocates power to each sect. Consequently, it reinforced loyalty along sectarian, rather than national lines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">But the system developed had its limitations, one being that strong state institutions failed to materialize.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Calls for an end to the sectarian system<\/h2>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">One of the key themes of the October protests was a move away from sectarian ties that had for so long united groups along religious lines. Historically, individuals turned to sectarian leaders, rather than the state, to address their issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">But as people thronged the streets in fall 2019, that mindset had visibly shifted. Shias, once loyal to Hezbollah, had joined their Sunni and Christian fellow citizens, now waving Lebanese, rather than party flags. However, a few counter protests did occur. At one protest in downtown Beirut, Sunni, Christian, Druze, and Shia religious leaders joined hands and processed through the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">This change could be viewed as supportive of the aims of mouwatinoun wa Mouwatinat fi Dawla. For four years the party has been developing its vision for a new type of Lebanon, a secular state that addresses citizens\u2019 needs directly, and not through religious sectarian communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe party\u2019s objective has always been to move away from the sectarian regime model, not for ideological reasons, for very practical reasons,\u201d Doumani, said, referring to the current system\u2019s failures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">When asked about sectarian representation of party\u2019s leadership, he said that it\u2019s not something they take into consideration, but acknowledged that in Lebanon it\u2019s often possible to identify someone\u2019s sect by their last name or hometown.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Perverse system<\/h2>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Today, crises continue to mount in the small country. At the core of this, some analysts say, is the sectarian system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">And asking those in power to reform themselves is \u201cvery na\u00efve,\u201d said Nasser Yassin, the interim director at the American University of Beirut\u2019s Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">During Al Arabiya English\u2019s webinar, Yassin said what was needed was a complete overhaul of the system, but recognized that it\u2019d be a bloody affair no one is prepared to engage in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe sectarian system is perverted,\u201d Doumani said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">He said \u201cperverted\u201d wasn\u2019t quite the right word, but defined as \u201ca thing having been corrupted or distorted from its original course, meaning, or state,\u201d the term aptly describes the squandered manner in which the ruling elite has governed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a system based on looting, on redistribution. It works in good times because even people who are getting a little are getting more. It doesn\u2019t matter because they\u2019re getting a share, and they\u2019re satisfied. As soon as things go wrong, and there\u2019s nothing to loot anymore, the sects control people through loyalty and turn them against the other,\u201d explained Doumani.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Nothing left to loot<\/h2>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">One main catalyst for the outbreak of protests on October 17, 2019, was a new tax on voice-over-internet-protocol (VOIP) apps, like WhatsApp. The move was seen as the state trying to squeeze taxpayers even more to cover losses from mismanagement and corruption, rather than address deeper issues such as its ailing electricity sector, which bleeds up to $2 billion annually and has contributed to the state\u2019s massive debt of around $89.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">People in Lebanon were already burdened by a dollar shortage that had slowly begun to see the value of the local currency slip and the 2019 austerity state budget that saw pensions cut from the Army and public sector employees, the culmination of policies in place since the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The new WhatsApp tax, which would charge users $0.20 a day for calls on the country\u2019s most popular communications app, was a step too far for many.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Yassin said Lebanon had entered a state of \u201clow-intensity collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201c[The political elite are] going to adapt to this and make us adapt,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are going to continue to gather what they can from the collapsing state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">In Doumani\u2019s view, most of the traditional political parties have failed to realize that the political system has failed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Instead, the regime has tried to reinvent itself through Prime Minister Diab\u2019s government, which came to power following the protests. While protesters demanded an independent, technocratic government, what they got was a one-color, Hezbollah-backed government chock-full of fresh faces with familiar political ties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Years ago, it was difficult to convince people to break with political alliances, Doumani said. But now, that seems to be shifting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">When asked why the party believes they should be the group to lead Lebanon through this, he suggested that as a movement, they have people who are getting prepared every day to take the reins, when the time comes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThere\u2019s people that are willing to take on the challenge of running a country in complete bankruptcy and through transition, and they are part of the movement,\u201d he said. \u201cWe know what to do because we knew what was going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Doumani added that they have been coordinating with other groups to present a united opposition front to the ruling elite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">But Yassin, a political analyst, said he hasn\u2019t yet seen an opposition front form yet strong enough to take on the state, though he acknowledged there have been some concerted efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cPeople often say it\u2019s a weak state, but we also have very powerful leaders who know the rules of the game, and they know how to utilize the state and its resources,\u201d he said. \u201cThey know how to use clientelist networks for their own gain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIt\u2019s not so easy to uproot the system.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Nahas<\/h2>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">As protesters called for the end of sectarian politics, they chanted \u201cKellon yaani kellon,\u201d or \u201call of them means all of them,\u201d in reference of desire for a technocratic government, rid of any politicians with ties to existing political parties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">How does any party with a member of the old establishment \u2013 Nahas \u2013 at the helm have a chance of gaining legitimacy from the same people who chanted \u201ckellon yaani kellon?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Doumani offered an indirect response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWhen we talk about a new structure or society, we\u2019re not talking about different people, we\u2019re talking about the same people that are in this society. We\u2019re talking about some people who had responsibilities in it, we\u2019re talking about people who didn\u2019t have responsibilities in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Nahas, for his part, resigned from the government in 2012 rather than sign a decree related to transportation allowances for workers because he believe it violated Lebanese law and would eventually deprive them of end-of-service compensation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI don\u2019t see Charbel Nahas as part of \u2018kellon yaani kellon,\u2019\u201d Yassin said. \u201cHe was part of the government at some point, but he wasn\u2019t part of the main stream and came from the margins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">With Nahas at the party\u2019s head, they have developed a four-phase plan that aims to move Lebanon through a complete collapse by appointing a transitionary government that will in the final phase hold parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Transition and future vision<\/h2>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">An interactive infographic on the party\u2019s website lays out their political vision. In the short-term, Doumani said recouping state losses will be the most challenging hurdle. A new electoral law will have to come shortly after, as well as ensuring that individual communities are protected and are protected from each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">In phase three, titled \u201cformation of a cohesive society and fortified economy,\u201d the party lists enmity with Israel, the relationship with Syria, Hezbollah\u2019s weapons, and a census \u2013 the last of which was conducted in 1932 \u2013 as issues to be dealt with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">On paper, it\u2019s all there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">But collapses are messy and transitions of power are rarely easily or neatly achieved. And for Lebanon, the future is uncertain. The regime has previously survived several periods of political uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">It is not clear whether this crisis will break the mold and change the system completely, allowing a non-traditional party like Citizens in a State to move in and implement its vision for a new, secular Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Doumani is optimistic though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide-in-mobile\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThis is history in the making. 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