Lebanon’s financial issues are not the only thing at stake these days. The Lebanese state’s entire existence and the legitimacy of the legislative authority represented by the parliament stand before the judiciary.
In the coming weeks, the Lebanese state will face a tough test. The only two options it has are inconvenient and rather bitter: Either the Constitutional Council falls in the trap of accepting the cancelation of the parliamentary elections or the Lebanese parliament falls. These are the two possibilities imposed by November’s developments, both legislatively and judicially.