Prime Minister-designate, Saad Hariri, patronized, on Saturday, the inauguration of the Future Movement’s 2nd General Conference at “Biel” in Central Beirut, with the participation of 2400 voting members and 400 monitoring members, in presence of senior political officials and prominent figures.
Following a minute of silence in memory of the late Martyr PM Rafic Hariri, the PM-designate addressed the attending crowd saying, “We are a Movement of coexistence and parity between Christians and Muslims.”
“If the Future Movement was entrusted to us by Martyr Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, you are hereby confirming, at this Conference, the will to preserve this trust,” he added.
“The Conference is taking place at a phase that is the most difficult and critical in the history of Lebanon and the Arab region…And we intended it to coincide with the political initiative that we have launched, which ended the vacuum in the presidency with the election of President Michel Aoun; thus, moving Lebanon away from the danger of stagnation, despair and disruption in State departments, and saving the legitimacy from collapsing,” Hariri underscored.
He went on to stress that, “We have determined this Movement to be a project of building a nation, a path we shall continue to follow, God willing,” adding that, “this inaugural session is an occasion to reiterate the set of constants which are integrated with our vision of the Lebanon we aspire for.”
“We are a Movement of Lebanon’s Arab identity, which is unrivaled with the country’s identity, for Arabism is a deep affiliation to a civilized, cultured and humane environment,” Hariri stressed.
“We are a Movement of Lebanon First, the Movement of legitimacy, of a strong State which does not yield to any other authority nor share its arms with any other; a legitimacy of the Lebanese Republic and the Taif Accord – a legitimacy of the constitutional institutions that emerge from the will of the people and the national consensus, and not from foreign directives,” he emphazised.
Hariri concluded by highlighting that the Future Movement is intended to be a model of democracy and a pioneer in defending the Lebanese democratic system.
“We are a democratic Movement in the service of Lebanon, a Lebanon of Arab identity, strong in its State, its Army, its free economy, its equal education, health and work opportunities; a Lebanon of coexistence between Christians and Muslims; a Lebanon of civil regime whose central value is the human being and human dignity,” Hariri underscored.
