Lebanon, Mayor Tiro: “Corruption has ruined the country, without international aid we won’t get out of it” – Video

(From the correspondent Silvia Mancinelli) – “This is the situation. And it is serious. Once we were the Switzerland of the Middle East, today corruption has led us to a crisis that leaves families in the dark and forces the most promising young people to go away. Just think that here we are four million, abroad three times as many “. Lapidary, crude, is the analysis made by the mayor of the municipality of Tire, Hassan Dabouk, two weeks before the elections that will renew the political class. To the journalists he has gathered in the hall of the town hall, he tells without discount the conditions of a people caught between pride and poverty. “Each family spends almost half of their salary to enjoy a few hours a day of electricity. In the town hall we have electricity thanks to the work of the Italian contingent – he explains – but my citizens have to use private generators, expensive in terms bills (we are talking about 200 euros per month) and, likewise, pollution, considering that the same generators are placed between the houses. Tire is no exception, but all of Lebanon pays the price of a wrong political system that needs to be changed “. at the polls, what do the Lebanese expect? “In reality – he says – not much will change here in the south, and the responsibility also lies with the citizens themselves who always vote for the same people, the usual ones in power. The yellows on one side, the greens on the other: they cannot be overcome these parties, which deserve the credit for having managed to defend Lebanon from our neighbors (the Israelis, ed). Of course, the international political conflict has also increased the Lebanese crisis “.” State electricity arrives one hour a day, the The light we have here in the room is thanks to the Italian contingent. This – explains Dabouk – because Lebanon is left alone even by our Arab brothers like the Gulf countries who are trying to make peace with Israel. I give an example: we could use the electricity from Jordan and gas from Egypt: both, however, must necessarily pass through Syrian territory. The Americans and the others prevent us from doing so because they are against Syria and we lose out, who remain in the dark. We were not allowed to accept the Iranians’ offer that they could build large power plants for free to power all of Lebanon. They do not want us to take aid from either Syria or Iran and in the meantime we pay unreachable bills for the majority of the population, who are in fact forced to run out of energy. “What, then, will the new management class be called upon to do?” It is a crisis very serious, we need to make a medium-term and a long-term plan to get out of it, make many sacrifices – replies the mayor – and without help from the international community we can’t get out of it. The new government will have to work hard to lower food prices, improve health care and schools. “In the last 15 years, the energy ministry has been in the hands of President Michel Aoun’s party: they have only done business, they have not worked to solve the energy problem, but to make money. For example, they bought two ships from Turkey that produce electricity, paying $ 2 billion. With the money from these two ships that powered Lebanon for 4 hours a day, they would have built 4 power plants. But this was a business: it is the politics of Lebanon. It works like this. When you have a session of the government, instead of finding a solution, they argue among themselves and the energy problem is not resolved because they do not put Agreement. Just think that our country, which has existed for over 5 thousand years, does not have a single history book: each community has its own because they do not agree “. Hence the diaspora of the new generations. “Young Lebanese who study go abroad to have a job and a future: we have more compatriots in Europe, Argentina, Brazil and America, more than those left in Lebanon – continues the mayor of Tiro – 600 graduate every year doctors, how do they get a job here? They are forced to go out. Also in my family we are four brothers, only I am here, the other three are in America. So the women, many graduates, eventually choose to devote themselves to the family . And it is not an imposition, it is a choice that belongs only to them: my daughter is a civil engineer, she tried to be a mother and to work, only to give in. For us, daughters are essential, we care more for them than for boys , soon they are in charge here “.

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