Report: Saudi Arabia Suggests Two Proposals to Avoid Presidential Vacuum
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Saudi Arabia suggested two proposals to help Lebanon avoid any vacuum in the Presidency post amid President Michel Suleiman's firm rejection to renew his term, which ends in May 2014.
According to al-Akhbar newspaper published on Monday, Saudi officials are convinced that the Lebanese rival parties will fail to agree on holding the presidential elections due to sharp differences.
“The matter will create a presidential vacuum in which power will be in the hand of Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati's resigned cabinet that the Saudis describe as Hizbullah's government,” a source told the newspaper.
The source said that Saudis suggest the extension of Suleiman's mandate for another three years, in order to maintain the current power distribution and to avoid any presidential vacuum.
The source told al-Akhbar that Suleiman's mandate extension would be by reelecting him for another half term as he had continuously reiterated his rejection to extending his presidential term.
Suleiman, whose mandate expires in May 2014, said previously that he would challenge the extension of his mandate if the parliament took such a move.
Another solution would be holding the presidential elections and voting for either Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji or Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh to the presidential post.
Suleiman returned last week from Saudi Arabia, where he held talks with King Abdullah during a meeting attended by ex-Prime Minister Saad Hariri, top Saudi officials, including Crown Prince Salman and the Saudi ministers of foreign affairs, interior and information.
18 November 2013, 08:30
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It is not unusual to start throwing out names of candidates in the hope of getting some response. I tend to agree there will not be Presidential election as long as the terrorist party continues to intimidate the rest of the Lebanese and Berri is speaker of Parliament.
18 November 2013, 10:11
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Now Saudi Arabia is giving us tips on how to run a democracy?
Ya 3ein.
18 November 2013, 12:14
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yeah how dare they suggest?!?!?! they should do as iran does.. send weapons to a militia and shove ONE choice down the Lebanese's throats...lol
18 November 2013, 13:11
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hahaha you talking about the binary type? if you have a stomach ache you blame it on the KSA funded takfiris..
18 November 2013, 10:36
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I am puzzled how m8 guys are not crying fowl against the takfiris who want to close night clubs!
Ah..... yes those takfiris are hizbushaitan :)
18 November 2013, 11:30
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typical m8 reply:
- deny, deny, deny
- insult, insult, insult.
:)
nothing new here, the same old m8 stupid blind Iranian followers :)
18 November 2013, 11:35
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you do realise we are lowering ourselves by talking to them every now and then.... perhaps we should ignore them as there seems to be no spam filter good enough to cast them out of naharnet as they appear to be as sly as a fox!
18 November 2013, 11:46
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oh pardon me lord FlameT, you are so open minded...oh yes your are!
Anything that comes from Western Democracy such as M14ers is systematically condemned.
oh yes, you are way more open minded than we are. excusez-moi encore!
18 November 2013, 12:05
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Do you think I live in Europe because I wanted to? Aoun's war against hafez el Assad pushed my entire family out of Lebanon. You tend to forget that your friends are causing (and always have) the mass exodus of entire Lebanese families. You guys have taken so much from us, I think the western style democracy kills far less than your 'Lebanese' one. I don't see wars inside Europe, can you say the same?
So yes, I praise M14 alliance, I know it's not perfect but it's the way forward for Lebanon.
18 November 2013, 12:08
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denial + denial = ?
to mahamad raad we are all sinners and wrong! he is only right along with his brotherhood of mullas/ayatolas/hayalas ...
Saudis are same same! the cutest is when they make jokes about each others as if he was Switzerland! retarded region of the world but rich ... and that's why the world is playing us and taking advantage of our illiteracy! yea brag about Iran and Saudi and please discuss even further which one smells better!!!
18 November 2013, 12:15
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hahah FT I already have a few remarks taken away because of your reporting... and that's just today... funny.
18 November 2013, 12:16
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my gosh.. does EVERY brain cell of yours have HA stamped on it??? all three of them?!?!?!?!!
18 November 2013, 13:56
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@FT : interesting Story on how bashar trains sunni terrorists in prison before sending them out :)
Nusra and Fath el Islam are all Bashar inventions :)
You can take your Takfiri boyfriends out to your favorite nighclub now ... nothing to fear !
You're all partners !
You can now shove your takfiri / nusra / fath el islam theories in Hassan's face !
http://mtv.com.lb/en/News/274790
18 November 2013, 10:41
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As long as Saudi Arabia pays for Harari's 5 Star Hotel Room and meals and expenses ,etc. he will use his minions to block the formation of government. Is this news? How much longer, until the Assad "Regime" prevails and the terrorists come live in Lebanon so they can have a Party with Nasrallah and turn Lebanon into a replay of Syria?
18 November 2013, 10:46
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Where is Movaten?
It think I've got an clear idea of his whereabouts. this info just got in.
Naharnet Live News - 6 minutes ago ISF arrested 126 people for committing different crimes throughout Lebanon. The ring leader calls himself Movaten of Isfahan.
18 November 2013, 13:49
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@benzona
"Do you think I live in Europe because I wanted to? Aoun's war against hafez el Assad pushed my entire family out of Lebanon. You tend to forget that your friends are causing (and always have) the mass exodus of entire Lebanese families."
I thought you were all for pushing entire families out of a country for a good cause, like the Syrian so-called revolution!
18 November 2013, 12:21
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I gave you 3 brain cells up there.. i actually thought you were three times smarter than you actually are..
18 November 2013, 12:21
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yes.. the Saudis have been sending weapons for AGES to a sectarian militia in Lebanon... they have been arming the takfiris since 1975... Saad Hariri openly pledged aleignece to the Saudi king...(oh wait) Mustaqbal has been receiving weapon shipments from Saudi, bypassing the Lebanese state and army (oh wait)
Saudi Arabia declared that mustaqbal is a part of its revolutionary guard..(oh wait)
Saudi Arabia declared that if Israel strikes at Saudi Arabia Mustaqbal will be the first to attack the Zionist entity... (oh wait)
18 November 2013, 13:57
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According to al-Akhbar newspaper, yep a newspaper known for it's close Saudi sources so this must be true LOL
18 November 2013, 14:28
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LOL! remember M8ers when toufayli, one of hezbi ex chief, lauded and praised ben laden in an epic eulology....
LOL!
18 November 2013, 16:41
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He became ex-chef because he opposed the iranian political agenda.
He became ex-chef because he thinks like a lebanese shia not like an iranian. Same happened to many in hizb or shia community when they opposed the khomeynists... That guy is a hero, even if I dont agree on lauding benladen...
18 November 2013, 16:00
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The next Christian president should be M8 not M14. Being Christian and M14 is a contradiction in terms as M14 has become a Wahhabi platform.
18 November 2013, 16:45
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We receive advices from EU,US,UK,France ect... Sometimes we follow those advices, sometimes not...Nobody makes a fuss about it and it's normal.
KSA gave us advices, helped us with Taef, we were not forced to listen to them. Lebanese should oppose ORDERS we get from Syria and Iran via the ministers they emply in the lebanese government. I won't even speak about their control of some security branches in Lebanon.
