DAILY SCOPE: First Dialogue Breaks Ice, Government enacts Shehayeb’s Plan

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NEWSPAPER HEADLINES

AS-SAFIR:

Waste Plan: Test Lies in Street

Dialogue of Incompetent "Ends"..."Movement" Holds

AL-AKHBAR:

Waste Responsibility of Municipalities

Dialogue of "Lost Time" in Progress, Movement's Lack of Mobilization Threatens the Opportunity

AN-NAHAR:

Finally, "Shehayeb's Plan" the Beginning of the End of the Crisis

AL-JOMHOURIA:

No Progress in Presidency...Waste Sees Solution

AL-LIWAA:

8th March Attempts to Invest Dialog to Impose Aoun as President

AL-MUSTAQBAL:

Presidency Priority of Dialog: Aoun Stressed and Hizbullah will "not abandon him"
Government Enacts Waste Management Plan

AD-DIYAR:

Shehayeb's Plan "Mysterious", Extended Sukleen for a Year and a Half, and for the Naameh Landfill for Seven Days

"Civil Movement" Succeeds in Popular Test...Demonstrations Ongoing Until Demands Fulfilled

Lebanese dailies published today, September 10th 2015, focused on domestic matters, discussing the dialogue session that took place in Parliament, which although failed to live up to its intended purpose, managed to break that ice, and prevent complete failure. In parallel, as civil society groups were protesting in front of Parliament and the Grand Serail, the Cabinet approved of Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayeb's plan to resolve the waste crisis.

The Movement Refrains from Confrontation, Avoids People Distancing Themselves --- AL-BINAA

Regarding the dialogue, al-Binaa daily said that the dialogue's main goal of the first session was to prevent failure, and overcome the danger of the dialogue's falling to pieces.

Then, the dialogue can act as a stepping stone towards a period wherein solutions mature, receiving positive signs from the international and regional scenes, resizing them for Lebanon. Only thereafter can the serious discussion for the presidency begin.

The paper added that the dialogue here is a process, not a step, and the presence of the movement beside it is a useful element, acting positively, not negatively, as the general public's pressure on both the movement and the dialogue is a doubly-edged message that reads: Failure is impermissible.

It is impermissible to cause the dialogue to fail by causing it to implode, and impermissible for the movement to fail by having it enter unnecessary fights and raise its demands too high. Thus, both the dialogue and movement acted together to produce the Cabinet session that overcame divisions because public opinion was ready to judge them.

Along with the dialogue in Nejmeh square, a number of civil movement demonstrators gathered in front of parliament, opposing the dialogue and the invitees, with some demonstrators lobbing eggs towards the cars of the invitees attempting to enter parliament through the only available point of entry towards Najmeh Square.

Moreover the paper said that "the dialogue's preliminary results have begun to appear, institution-wise, especially with regards to the Cabinet, which convened in an outstanding marathon session that lasted six hours, ending with the enacting of Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayeb's plan to resolve the waste crisis.

Government Decides: Waste Municipal Responsibility --- AL-AKHBAR

Al-Akhbar, for its part, noted that the dialogue and political communications that went on in the past two days were translated into the government's agreement on a solution to the waste crisis.

The paper said that Minister Shehayeb announced the agreement to transport trash from Beirut and Mt. Lebanon to the Naameh landfill for a period of seven days, whereupon work to produce electricity, and distribute it for free, would begin. $11,640,000 have been allocated to complete this phase, with work set to begin immediately.

What's notable about yesterday's session, is the FOM's and Tashnag's acceptance, for the first time, of using the Burj Hammoud landfill to take in a portion of the waste in this transitional phase, although they were against the whole plan, which they relayed is good in form, but disputed some of its details.

Source: al-Ahed News, Edited by website team