The current tries to tighten the nerve

In recent weeks, the “Free Patriotic Movement” campaign has escalated against the displaced Syrians in a remarkable way, which was directed yesterday, until it looked like his absolute political and media priority. Perhaps understanding the backgrounds of this escalation passes through three main elements that explain why the current chose this timing and this high tone.

First, the Free Patriotic Movement from power after the formation of the Nawaf Salam government created a wide political margin for the use of a more popular discourse. When he was part of the judgment, he was obligated to internal and external balances that prevented him from bidding or putting slogans in advance that they were difficult to apply. Today, it has moved to an opposition site, which can raise the ceilings without embarrassment, using very sensitive files such as the Syrian displacement file, taking advantage of the vibrating popular mood, and from the fact that there is no direct executive responsibility to it.

Second, the Free Patriotic Movement lives in a state of continuous popular decline, and this decline is clearly evident in every electoral entitlement. Because the general mood in its traditional environment is no longer satisfied with the usual slogans, the current felt the need for an additional dose of radical discourse that tightens the nerve and rises an audience that began to leak towards other options. From here, he did not hesitate to go to an unprecedented level in Lebanon with a sharp speech towards the displaced, represented in the speech of the head of the current, Gibran Bassil yesterday, a speech that simulates the concerns and deep concerns of the Christian street in particular, using a language that combines security, social and economic anxiety.

Third, the Free Patriotic Movement realizes that it is unable to keep pace with the campaign against Hezbollah launched by its Christian opponents, because this means losing its alliance with the party, a coalition that aspires to renew it and perhaps strengthening it in the upcoming parliamentary elections. Therefore, he needed an alternative discount through which he could tighten the Christian nerve without colliding with the party. He found in the file of the Syrian displacement of his misfortune: a discount without a political cost towards his ally, and a issue that received a wide response in his environment.

With these complex accounts, it is clear that the campaign against the displaced is not just a purely spontaneous or national movement as the current tries to present, but rather is part of the battle of political and popular survival that it is fighting on more than one front, seeking to reshape its image and location in the changing Lebanese scene.