عون أبلغ الحريري انه لن يترشح للرئاسة "ما لم يتأمّن التوفق حوله"

Karim bro, if let's say Geagea was allied to Hezbollah today, would you also be saying, God bless Hakim? The truth is that we humans tend to take God for granted, and we come up with things like God bless this or God bless that....Who are we to utter His almighty name when we know so little about the Almighty's WILL? people like Aoun, or Geagea or even Sayed Hassan are just mortals, humans. They fight for causes that can hurt an entire nation, and that leave deep scars on society. One can say, God bless Messi, or Ronaldo, or Barca, or Real De Madrid, fair enough, but to ask for blessings for politicians? How can we lend God will to human nature, do we owe Him or isn't the opposite more of the truth. Let such people repent and pray, and pray sincerely, for their sins are many, atonement does not come easy for such people, unless heaven is a very unfair place.

Bloody unlikely karim!

God bless General Aoun..... for this is the 1st good thing he does for Lebanon

he's the only one, i'm amazed by his decency these days, we've seen worse from him... Probably playing a game...

do you have any idea what you're talking about?

Well said Aquaii, alas, the Lebanese will never learn. These two oligarchs, these two criminals, these two utterly selfish have caused so much pain yet, it seems feel that the last round wasn't enough, this time they want to finish what they started decades ago. As if it was wrong for us to heal our wounds.

No LF, not that bad, the reflection was over these two arch enemies that keep dividing us at a time when unity is our only remedy.

Sempre, Dios protect us from him and Geagea. For Aoun rest assured, his protection is courtesy of Bachar Al Assad and Hezbollah. Go to his villa, many of his guards are from HA. Just for the record, has anyone M8 figure died yet?

Being the only candidate means obtaining power by force. Most dictators in fact obtained power without a single drop of blood.

Look at your Bashar for example ! A beacon of democracy is he ?

This is irrelevant. Each party must present candidates and a vote should take place.

In fact, each party must have their "leader" prior to parliamentary election on the basis of which they earn votes for their MPs. MPs are representative of the people and their party leaders when possible can be eligible as candidates for the presidency.

Our current parliament is obsolete however and should be replaced BEFORE electing the next president.

It's not hate. It's realising the truth after so many years.

I was and remain a Aounist to this day.

It seems Aoun is no longer a Aounist however and has lost his ways since he came back to Lebanon !

It's irrelevant because whether the president is voted by the people or MPs, the president is representative of the people.

The problem is the schedule of the current elections and the president being voted by an obsolete parliament.

In any case, any presidential candidate should be supported by parties and they should conduct public debates and present their "program" to the people.

In fact, presidents are normally "party leaders" and as such are the main drivers of votes for the party MPs.

So this is why I feel whether we vote directly or not is irrelevant. I do prefer voting directly but indirect votes should not excuse candidates from conducting campaigns and competing to bring a semblance of democracy to the parody of democracy that is lebanon.

but roar said " You are by far the chosen leader of the Christian sect" so it must be true. so why is he not enlightening us on his presidential agenda? before the vote? or doesn't he care? Is he just interested in making deals with the MP's to gain le brezidency without telling us what he has in mind? very democratic ..I think not..

Walaw ya Roar, heyda li be2yi beyni wou beynak? You are putting me with Bani on the same boat? bani is a nutcase, I am not. Bani is like his other half, Jombie, twists and turns every single day, I am consistent with my positions. From the very beginning, I knew your leanings and I respected them, and still respect them 100%, even if as you know I have no appetite for old man Aoun, not now, not ever. Have you seen how I debate with our Shiite siblings? have I not been most frank with them, yet kept respecting them, Even them did not have your words for me. I just felt that today you were more Lebanese than Australian by lavishing so much praise for the old man and I did it with a touch of humor. Anyway Roar, a brother is a brother, and this is how it will stay for me and you.

You know Roar? There are times when I wanted to express my views of Aoun and other M8 figures a lot more strongly, but I always kept saying, I have some M8 brothers here and to me they mean a lot more. Anyway, just to let you know, Phoenix has not changed.

I second that Coolmec, a decent guy for once and not the old rodent pest infested furniture.

Who is the Christian leader? Aoun? Who has about 40% of the Christian vote? M14 Christians including mustaqbal elected Christians who make up about 50%? We Christians are the laughing stock of Lebanon. We are as divided as divided can be. And everything is being done to ensure we remain weak and divided. Fpm MPs are inflated because of the Shia vote in jbeil and Baabda. M14 is inflated in the north. Aoun is not a strong leader because he us part and parcel of this division along with every m14 Christian leader as well. Jumblat is a strong leader because he united his people. HA is a strong party because it unites its people. And mustaqbal are strong because they also unite. Each of those parties are by far the strongest in their sect. What are we??? Nothing. Divided. And with all due respect. Divided because someone changed his orange book. Can you imagine what we could have been?

Lol, yes,yes,yes, new conspiracies??. Foreigners have nothing else to do but waste their time on idiots like you and your pack

But I am with you on baroud. Would love to see him as our president. But I fear it will not happen.

And not a single vote bought by m8. And no I do not think Aoun will win. I'm all for the vote. But he will still end up with less than 50%.

Again roar. I do not speak of anything without personal experience. I was personally offered a ticket by the fpm when I was in Dubai. And even my uncle. An fpm party member and official said he can throw in a hotel.
FT. I was using the same measure as fd. If Aoun and franjieh beat Geagea according to that website. Geagea harb and gmeyil crush them. Not saying it is a fool proof method. Just using the same argument.