سليمان: اللقاء الأورثذكسي مخالف للدستور ولإنشاء لجنة قانونية تحسبا لأي طعن

Well, if it's unconstitutional then it's a waste of time to talk about it. Anyway, The best thing is that each Lebanese represents himself... there's no need to elect someone else. We should have 4 million MPs and of course each of us get paid $19.000 / month for life.

M8ers are gonna love this piece of news! lol !

Wasn't his appointment as president unconstitutional? or am I wrong about that?

hahahaha! true!

President Suleiman is the only one that made sense among all of these clowns. I find the whole sectarian mentality sickening. I am a Sunni Muslim (it killed me to write this) who is married to a Spanish Catholic. I wanted to register my two newly born twin boys. On the form, it ask to specify a sect. I call the embassy and ask "can I keep it blank?" The answer is "no, it will not be processed." Can I put one as Muslim and other as Christian. The answer was "No. Muslim and Christian are not acceptable choices. You have to put in the sect and both have to be the same sect as the father." So according to our crazy Lebanese laws, my 1.5 years old are Sunni Muslims!!! Does this really make sense? For now, my children have to be satisfied with being Canadian and Spanish citizens. When Lebanese decide to be just "human beings" and not "sectarian beings," I will register them.

Way to go Mr. President. The Orthodox Gathering law is against the basic human rights, so it is definitely unconstitutional. Over the past 150 years we went through uprising, revolutions, and a civil war to mend confessional fences, we should not rebuild them through an electoral law. Any law is better than this law that brings nothing but divisions and misery. If our politicians are stupid and blindsided with greed, that does not mean that we are.

nothing is unconstitutional if everyone agrees :P

you mean not march 14 century :)

you will never find all lebanese agree over something.

this comment show how unpatriotic you are. that you are not really lebanese.

i use lebanese documents when i go there, and i do it because i love lebanon despite all the problems in it.

lebanon is not about politics it's about country people nature and sweets

M8ers call for the power of the president to be restored and when the president has a say they criticize him! LOL
double M8 standards as usual!!!!

and the orthodox law is clearly a sectarian idea! why should a christian vote for a christian if he prefers a sunni whom he believes is better? why should a sunnni vote for a sunni if he thinks a shia is better? LOL!

aoun keep on saying that you should choose people for the skills and not for their religion! and he supports a law which is the contrary to what he preaches! he and all those supporting this law...

those pretending thay want secularism and support this law clearly contradict themselves! hopefully being ridiculous doesn t kill!

It's hilarious to see how happy and uninformed M14ers are here. They're praising the president for stopping the Orthodox law but they haven't read his next words. Please read what he says about proportional representation and then tell me that Saad Hariri will agree to it. Your Aoun-ophobia has made you demented zombies.

FlameThrower, I wasn't talking about peace whom I don't read anyway. I'm referring to Sidon93 who is most definately disappointed after he's done what I instructed in my post.

The only law that will pass is a law that will guarentee the durzi power in Lebanon. Mark my words, jumblatt is the tie-breaker, there's no changing that for now. The first camp that comes up with a law that protects the durzi voice will get jumblatt votes.

As much as one can criticize jumblatt, you have to agree that he's been walking the perfect path, straight down the middle. His alliance with the president, and putting his ministers political weight behind Suleiman was the best move.

It would be nice to see an independent movement in Lebanon.

You guys talk about how sectarian the electoral orthodox draft law is and how unorthodox it is to have such a law but if you look at the reality of things in Lebanon it is asking for it. Why do you think interracial marriage is common or interreligion marriage is common between people. It isn't because these people are asking for a division or wanting to promote racism, on the contrary it is because these people belong and have belonged to a certain culture for centuries and religion is part of our culture in Lebanon. It shouldn´t be a scary thing.We are apples and oranges and bananas living in one basket. We might get mixed sometimes and it shouldnt cause a problem but the matter of the fact is that apples will most likely choose apples first, oranges orange and bananas banana. So i dont see why this draft law would be bad?

instead of struggling in worthless meetings to find a BS law that would protect their interests , they d rather meet to stop sectariansim and find a law to stop it! but as they are just defending their low interests they dont give a sh.. as to improve the country as they all benefit from it by frightening people! they all pretend to want secular laws but when it comes to it they all defend their sects!
Although the Taif Agreement identified the abolition of political sectarianism as a national priority they all forgot about that!
M14 always pretend to defend this agreement but never refers to the end of sectarianism! aoun pretends to be in favor of secularism but always talk about christian rights and never offers a solution to implement it!!!!
hypocrits they are...