The momentum of the thawra continues to build, following last week’s historic triumph over the sulta in the elections of the Engineers’ Syndicate.

Engineers related to the thawra or running as independents secured over two-thirds of positions across the different categories of engineering sectors. This has built on previous wins in the Beirut Bar Association, and across many university elections.

The elections also witnessed the formation of the widest thawra coalition to date, reigniting talks around the exact interpretation of “kelon ya3ne kelon”.

“Kelon ya3ne kelon” emerged as a uniting slogan for the thawra, and signaled that the thawra would not differentiate between the different sulta parties.

While some have held more hardliner views then others, there are many objective parameters regarding the slogan agreed by all.

“Kelon ya3ne kelon” was a call to the ruling cartel, that they were all factors causing the crisis – regardless of whether one party was only 10% responsible and another 30%. They all lost their political legitimacy, they all needed to resign, and they all needed to submit to justice.

“Kelon ya3ne kelon” was also a signal that the people wanted a political alternative excluding current politicians. Some have objected completely to any government presence of anyone remotely involved in public affairs and in some ways the financial sector, for the past 30 years. Others boil it down to the key remaining pillars of the cartel.

No revolution in history has ever wiped out an entire class of senators, governors and judges of an entire society. In fact, most revolutions in history have targeted highly concentrated clusters of power, such as monarchies, one-party dictatorships, military junta or foreign occupying forces.

The only other country in the world to effectively be governed by a “peace cartel” is Bosnia-Herzegovina, where the regime still holds firm ground.

The lack of a historical template to follow has created confusion, which has partially been resolved by a focus on the “club of 6”, and by the gradual development of more objective criteria.