Geagea Expresses Fears over Constitution and Republic
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Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea confirmed that he has met with President Michel Suleiman away from the media spotlight, saying their talks focused on the delay in the formation of a new government, which would harm the Constitution.
In an interview with al-Akhbar daily published on Monday, Geagea said: “We discussed a lot of issues and I told him about the need to speed up the cabinet formation process because the delay is eating away the Constitution and Constitutional authorities.”
“We will end up without a Constitution and without a Republic if the situation continues this way,” the LF chief warned.
Geagea said that despite some differences with Suleiman, he agreed with him on several issues, including “the intention to form the government.”
“I am not allowed to reveal the stance of the president and what he told me in the meeting, but I can say that Suleiman holds onto the Constitution and the Republic too,” he told al-Akhbar.
“The president is in continuous contact with the Premier-designate and they feel that it is about time to do something about the cabinet formation,” he said.
“We don't interfere in that because it is up to the president and PM-designate Tammam Salam” to decide on the government, Geagea added.
Asked whether he had the impression after the Baabda Palace meeting that the cabinet would be formed soon or be postponed to next year, Geagea said: “No one can set any date.”
“We believe there is no excuse for the delay … but my impression after my visit to the president is that there is more probability to come up with a cabinet in not a very long time,” he added.
On another crisis, Geagea said that the LF will continue to boycott parliamentary sessions that Speaker Nabih Berri has called for this week.
He described the sessions as unconstitutional. “Nothing has changed in their agenda so that we change our stance.”
But he stressed that the LF MPs will attend a session to elect members of parliament's bureau and several parliamentary committees.
21 October 2013, 10:50
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Mr ..-_.,wolf-,,_.- your opinion does not count due to your Insanity... and stop whining about deletions, we all get deleted comments.
Signed El General Puppet
21 October 2013, 11:29
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"Have a miserable day"... wolfy that is not a very nice thing to say to me :-(((((
21 October 2013, 14:12
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Sami Geagea ~ “We will end up without a Constitution and without a Republic if the situation continues this way,”
Sami ~ Therefore we must continue the boycott at all costs ...
21 October 2013, 15:21
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lol, that was sooooooooooooooooo funny. ask our Lord to help you before you pop an artery OMG, I am ROTFL
21 October 2013, 16:08
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I have been off the last couple of weeks following the American version of the Hezbollah take over of the Lebanese System. The Tea Party attempted coup in the US was much more interesting with much greater global impact had it worked. But it failed because the US is, afterall, a country of laws and the Rule of Law prevailed over the hostage takers.
Lebanon is not so fortunate. It has no tradition of constitutional government and so when interlopers such as Hezbollah steps in to unilaterally assume to perform the functions of the State, there is no push back from legitimate authority.
21 October 2013, 16:11
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Geagea is of course incorrect. There is no fear that the Constitution is in danger in the same sense that Geagea should not fear losing his hair. Both events are fait accompli. It is done. Hezbollah maintains order in Lebanon under a very thin fading facade of government that Suliman bravely tries to maintain, almost single handedly.
The Lebanese need to stop worrying about how to save the Constitutional form of goverment and instead concentrate their efforts on determining ways and means of restoring it.
22 October 2013, 01:21
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My point of course is that it's time to stop worrying with saving the Lebanese Republic, Hezbollah has already completely subverted it in all but name only. The Lebanese should be about the business of restoration of its constitutional representative government. We have lost it. It was lost the day that Aoun decided to give cover to Hezbollah in February 2006 and to confront the Lebanese nationalist coalition. The loss was confirmed when Hezbollah took to the streets on May 7, 2008 to negate the lawful decrees of the government, and rubbed in our faces the day that Hezbollah decided unilaterally to participate in the Syrian civil war against the government policy of nonengagement.
So, let's get over this "save the constitution" crap and start now with resorting constitutional government
