The Free Patriotic Movement in front of two challenges: restoring alliances and restoring popularity

The Free Patriotic Movement at the current stage faces a serious challenge that will continue until the date of the upcoming parliamentary elections, a compound that carries political and popular dimensions at the same time. On the one hand, the current finds itself relatively isolated from the wide political scene as a result of the disintegration of the alliances on which it was previously based, and on the other hand, its popularity has decreased significantly since the end of President Michel Aoun’s era, which imposes an urgent move to restore positioning.

Politically, the alliance problem appears to be one of the most urgent challenges. The current has gradually lost most of its political partners, either as a result of direct differences or because of the alignment of alignments. In order to be able to fight the next parliamentary entitlement with a minimum balance, he must start immediately restoring these relationships, and opening new pages with all traditional powers, without exception. The time is everyone, and the next electoral scene will be very sensitive, which requires the current to excel in the art of recycling angles, away from any political stubbornness.

Popularly, the picture is no less complicated. As the current suffers from a clear decline in popular support, and this is a decline that started with the disappointments of the stage of the covenant, and it continued to exacerbate the economic and political crisis that the country has gone through. However, the irony today is that the current is in the ranks of the opposition, and this is a rare opportunity that may allow it to rebuild its image, and to present a different letter from the one that is required during the ruling stage.

The question that arises here: Will the current succeed in capturing this opportunity? Will he be able to formulate a new, more open, more open, and less provocative speech? Or will he remain the prisoner of the escalating language that weakened his popular presence, and ranked a wide segment of the Lebanese?

The answer to this challenge will not only determine the size of the parliamentary current in the next parliament, but perhaps its future as an effective political force in Lebanon. Either a deliberate and fast rush, or a continuation of retreat and isolation.
Attention is heading to the speech that the head of the current will say, MP Jubran Bassil, this evening on the twentieth anniversary of the Syrian military withdrawal.