The common grounds:
1. Lebanon, the independent country:
The first basis is that Lebanon :
1.1 Is a completely independent homeland and state
1.2 Has full sovereignty on all its territory
1.3 Is a member, entitled to full rights,
in the United Nations and its organizations
1.4 Refuses all type of political, economic and cultural
colonialism,
and seeks to get rid of colonization, all its aspects and
of every new attempt
of colonization.
1.5 Refuses the interference
of any State or entity in its affairs
1.6 Refuses any division to several states or
cantons: sectarian or not.
2. Lebanon and Arabism:
The second basis is that Lebanon:
2.1 Is an Arab country, with all the implied dimensions
2.1.1 A state among the Arab states seeking solidarity in the Arab
world
2.1.2 A member in the Arab League,
who contributes in all the Arab
organizations, whether inter-state or inter-people.
Has equal rights with those
states, and equal obligations and responsibilities.
The destiny of all these
States being one
2.2 Lebanon and the Arab unity:
2.2.1 Lebanon backs any Arab union or unity if this unity is:
democratic, secular, modern. Adopted by the people not the rulers.
2.2.2 Lebanon is ready to enter the union or
unity which satisfies
these conditions
2.2.3 And it is ready to do its best in order for
the union or unity
succeed, at all levels
3. The secular Lebanese formula:
Lebanon has to overcome the current Lebanese formula,
in order for it
to become a secular state on the political, educational,
organizational levels
and on the office and family law levels, and then:
3.1 Any clause in the constitution, the laws and
the conventions that
protects one of the following matters should be amended:
3.1.1 The political confessionalism:
– The sect of the President of the Republic,
the parliament and the
ministers
– The sect of the deputies and the ministers
– The sect of the central and the regional army leadership
– The sect registered in the public records
3.1.2 The office confessionalism:
– The sect of the office
– The proportion of the offices for every sect
3.1.3 The confessional aspect of the family law:
The marriage laws, its conclusion and cancellation, filiation and
inheritance, assuming a civil law pertaining to these issues
3.2 The state of Lebanon should encourage any contribution that makes
the country and the state more secular, and should take the responsibility of
the educational and socialization processes, and should opt to:
– The rise in the public schooling and the adoption of a unification
plan for the public schools
– The unification of the academic curricula and close attention to
its implementation
– The change in the military and civil service
– Making the membership in syndicates obligatory
– The backing of the cooperations and encouraging their establishment
– Increasing the effectiveness of the secular associations, clubs,
and movements and backing them
4. The Lebanese formula: The political Democracy
In politics
The Lebanese system should overcome the current Lebanese political
formula in order for it to become a real democratic state, not in appearance, on
the political level, the economic, and the social, whereas the following steps
are taken:
4.1 The increase in the effectiveness of the authorities with
emphasis on their independence and cooperation at the same time, with the
adoption of decentralization on all levels
4.2 Making the parliamentary practice part of a wide popular
democratic practice
4.3 Making the government adopt the principle of
plebiscites/referendums in important issues, the results being binding
4.4 Legislating an electoral law which guarantees the participation
of the people in the parliamentary and political life and which leads to the
representation of the political parties in the parliament
4.5 The dichotomy between the parliament and the cabinet, and banning
the candidacy of any minister to parliament before 5 years of leaving the
ministry
4.6 Implementing the economic and social council, truly representing
the economic and social interest groups
4.7 At military level, making the military body a contributor to the
economic, social, educational, environmental development of the country…
In the liberties and participation
4.8 The guarantee of the exercise of all types of freedom:
4.8.1 The freedom of thought, speech, work, publishing, and belief.
4.8.2 The freedom of assembly, meeting, association, and organization
4.8.3 Woman’s freedom and the cancellation of all restraints and laws
that discriminate woman
4.8.4 The freedom of work, commuting, and habitat.
4.9 The spreading of the participation formula in the planning,
reporting, and implementation in the following institutions:
4.9.1 Vocational: from the factory till the hospital
4.9.2 Educational: From school till university
4.9.3 Local: From the quarter to the province
5. The Lebanese formula: The economic democracy
Lebanon should overcome the anarchic economic policy in its current
formula, and should make new legislation and structure, so that it:
5.1 Contains the monopoly syndrome and the motivations for illegal
profit, preserving the principle of individual contribution
5.2 Reaches the monitored economy, planned, cohesive, built on the
Lebanese reality and the Arab surrounding
5.3 Leads to the fading of differences between classes and regions,
and to a country of justice, equality, equal opportunity
5.4 Encourages the employment of individual or common capital in the
productive sectors
5.5 Jobs are provided for every one, and the convenient professional
training and school orientation
5.6 Contains the competition of foreign labor with the available one
in Lebanon
5.7 Healthy and just fiscal (taxes and tariffs) and monetary policy
should be taken
6. The Lebanese formula, the social democracy
In education
6.1 The educational policy should be overcome in its current formula,
which is unjust to the majority of the citizens, in respect to the providence of
a complete education to the Lebanese human being. This education should develop
all his potentials and capacities, and should make him integrated in his
society, taking in it responsibility; therefore some legislation should be
adopted whereas:
6.1.1 Scientific plans should be adopted, whereas a common
educational system is made for all regions
6.1.2 The basis of such a system should be the Lebanese status quo,
with all its possibilities and future perspectives
6.1.3 Free schooling and education should be provided to all with no
discrimination in opportunity at all academic levels, and its binding character
at least at the basic level