In his sermon during Sunday mass in Bkerke, Rai said that “the aim of some is to control the state, not to modernize the system. ©Al Markazia
Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai stressed that “we live under a parliamentary democratic system and a national accord,” explaining that pluralism, federalism and centralization are foreign words in our political and constitutional lexicon.
In his sermon during Sunday mass in Bkerke, he said that “the aim of some is to control the state, not to modernize the system.” He pointed out that “some who call for changing the constitution aim to extend their power in the state, not to improve it,” considering that “the role of the citizen is absent in Lebanon.”
“What's needed,” he added, ”is for the communities to yield to the State, not the State to the communities.”
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