Generations have allowed their citizens to sink into poverty and despair the explosion was a terrible symbol of that neglect the cause a highly volatile quantity of Ammonium Nitrate but it sat for years in a warehouse of port officials warned of the dangers posed mornings but was systematically ignored but would anything change in the aftermath would anyone ever be held to account for and sympathy arrived in the shape of Frances Emanuel macro when he brought an uncompromising message theres no blank check he told people if your Political Class fails we wont come from that part of the state and fail it did days later the government resigned not only did the politicians have no answers they had like so many before the simply given up who would now fill the vacuum. Hello and welcome to this special edition of conflict zone over the last 4 years weve interviewed several senior lebanese politicians about the inexorable breakdown of their economy and their state institutions what they told u
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God reconcile its very different activities. We welcome to conflicts around welcome to you thank you good morning 8 and 9 months oh of mass demonstrations against the political elite you included and nothing is changing where are the reforms that have been promised so many times in lebanon well this is a long story actually when you want to talk about the reforms and lebanon when you want to talk about the reforms in lebanon you have to talk about the elements of the system we have been plagued by the most like of ailments and political diseases of my say and this is a long way to go actually it has to do with the confessional system it has to do with the economy that we follow. It does not necessarily belong to the benefits of the people thats why were going to continue to have this vicious cycle as long as we continue to stick to the same system that when you hear it was something i continue to do the same think you cannot expect our very young to result you know you better some resp