Papal ambassador to Lebanon, Paolo Borgia, is scarcely appearing with politicians.
A politician who met him quoted Borgia as saying, “The Vatican wants a president,” and calls for love, peace, and getting together.
The Vatican wants a president in Lebanon because he is the only Christian head of state in the region.
In the Vatican’s opinion, electing any president is better and more crucial than having a prolonged vacuum at the top post, while political circles in the opposition believe that “the presidential vacancy remains less costly than having the candidate of the Hezbollah-led ‘axis of resistance’ in the presidential post.
Opposition parties argue that “we have suffered greatly from a president aligned with the so-called axis of resistance who took us nowhere else but to hell,” in reference to former President Michel Aoun.
