Should have been …Would have been…Must have been formed. It was supposed to be formed this Monday. The people were waiting for it, PS Berri was expecting it, and the presidency needed it, while PM Saniora seemed to have held it so certainly in his hand: The government seems to be eluding everyone. What should the Lebanese expect after the last few days that promised an end to the five-week impasse?

After the last 3 days that promised a solution for the governmental crisis. The request placed last Tuesday by Hezbollah and the opposition to appoint Ex-minister and member of the pro-Syrian SNP party ِAli Kanso in the new government on one hand. The refusal of the March 14 coalition to include Kanso in the government on the other hand. All came to halt the announcement of the government and seemed to have broken the consensus between the opposition and the government. 

Political obstacles resulting in the death and injuries of dozens of people in the last two days are not helping matters either. Are these conflicts carried out in an attempt by whomever to score points or to improve their bargaining positions? Or is the latest round of fighting another wrestling match in the undeclared war among various regional and even other influencers in Lebanon? 

Inflicting plans and agendas being carried out on the Lebanese stage that cost the Lebanese people many casualties last May, last year, and all through the past decades. Two conflicting plans on the Lebanese scene with one thing in common: none of them is Lebanese. The Agendas are imported, the parliament is imported. And there seems to be a problem in the latest package to arrive: “the government”. What the Lebanese people - the same people that are now fighting in the streets - fail to realize is that they are all tax payers reimbursing a bill that will never be settled! Because of one simple reason, the same reason that provoked violence among them: the same political faction that is being re-elected and reformed, re-polished and re-used in every new - identical- cabinet that is being formed. A political faction that will eventually tailor the system to fit their ambitions…

Until they decide -to stop-, until we realize what is being done to us. Until we learn how to say no! Until we unite in the name of the law and not of a leader! Until we decide to produce and generate a useful, youthful political rule, through democratic elections. But most of all, until we refuse promoting anything but Lebanon in Lebanon, we will always be awaiting a change, pleading for economic reforms, yearning for justice…and pending yesterday.