Gemayel Urges Formation of Inclusive, Interim Cabinet ahead of Presidential Vote
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Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel on Sunday called for the formation of an “interim” and “all-embracing” cabinet that would prepare for the upcoming important junctures, especially the presidential election.
“We are before three essential and critical junctures that would decide Lebanon's future: the presidential vote, the formation of the new cabinet and the presidential elections,” Gemayel said during a press conference.
He suggested what can be described as a roadmap for the three junctures.
“We demand the formation of an interim cabinet that would oversee the presidential vote and whose mission would end with the end of this juncture. That would be followed by forming another cabinet that would prepare a new electoral law, under which a new Lebanese parliament would be elected and would be tasked with defining the country's domestic and foreign policies,” Gemayel said.
He noted that “what's happening in Geneva between the U.S. and Iran has repercussions on the Lebanese situation.”
“But we're concerned with people and their security and the country's future and we're seeking the triumph of Lebanon, not the triumph of one camp over another,” added Gemayel.
“We're in round-the-clock contact with the president over the formation of the new cabinet and in constant contact with ex-PM Saad Hariri and with all our allies, as well as with the other camp, in order to form a cabinet that would satisfy our conscience,” he said.
Gemayel noted that the Phalange Party would voice its final stance on the issue of joining the new cabinet in light of consultations with President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam, stressing that the government must be “competent and unifying.”
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19 January 2014, 16:38
Gemayel: Nothing is final before all things become clear regarding the formation of a competent cabinet.
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19 January 2014, 16:36
Gemayel: Our party will take its decision in light of consultations with Salam and Suleiman. We won't accept any cabinet as we rather want a competent cabinet that can shoulder responsibilities and it must be all-embracing.
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19 January 2014, 16:36
Gemayel: We're in contact with Hariri and all our allies as well as with the other camp to form a cabinet that would satisfy our conscience.
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19 January 2014, 16:35
Gemayel: The new cabinet would perform defined missions for a short period of time. We're seeking the triumph of Lebanon, not the triumph of one camp over another.
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19 January 2014, 16:35
Gemayel: We have three important upcoming junctures, including the presidential election. How will we manage to elect a president amid the absence of a cabinet and without governmental consensus. We call for the formation of a cabinet that would prepare for this election. The second juncture is drafting an electoral law and the third is preparing for the parliamentary elections.
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19 January 2014, 16:33
Gemayel: We care about people and their security and needs and we demand the formation of a cabinet that can perform its duties during this short interval of time and that would prepare for the upcoming important junctures.
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19 January 2014, 16:32
Gemayel: Everything happening abroad has repercussions on Lebanon and there is no one in Lebanon to shoulder the responsibilities.
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19 January 2014, 16:32
Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel at a press conference: Lebanon can't bear the current burdens in the absence of an active government.
19 January 2014, 16:49
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Let me thin ........ Nasrallah, Berri, Aoun, Jumblat, Gaegae, Gemayel, Harriri, Franjieh, and all the little yahoos called leaders...... somewhat in order of applicability
The only one who speaks to the whole nation and never leveraged his supporters is President Sleiman.
19 January 2014, 21:16
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@sagh & josebs, how dare the takfiris and Saudi backed Islamic Jihadist copy a fraction of the things your Syrian regime did to the Christians of Lebanon!
But at least we can sleep easy knowing that no matter how much they try the terrorist takfiris and Saudi backed Islamic Jihadist will never be able to match all the unspeakable unimaginable criminal actions that the Syrian Assad Baath regime did to the Lebanese Christians. Thank God for that, some things should stay exclusively the domain of the Assads Baath regime, it's terrorist organizations, it's army and it's mukhabarat.
19 January 2014, 17:09
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If only what Gemayel said was relevant to the political scene...
His allies and foes operate without taking him into consideration, a sad sight indeed considering what the Kataeb party once was.
19 January 2014, 20:12
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leb_roar: didn't your parents teach you not to talk when your mouth is full of lies?!
19 January 2014, 17:25
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yea hes totally powerless and has not recently been delivering fatal blows to the M8 alliance. you are not foaming at the mouth ATM. Syria is just fine. Ya haidar, ya haidar, ya haidar....
19 January 2014, 19:27
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The problem is people like you and who you represent believe they were given a divine mandate to classify who is and who is not patriotic. The word patriotic means nothing coming from a person of your kind.
19 January 2014, 21:53
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agree 100% liberty. his allegiance is not to lebanon, but to iran, thus he has no idea what is patriotic or not.
20 January 2014, 06:40
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Then your loyalty lies with Saudis proudm14. We are not getting anywhere with that now are we?
19 January 2014, 22:12
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Why do amal thugs comment about our Christian president? I'm referring 2 Southern w/ a dot.
19 January 2014, 22:25
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Callate la Boca.
U r boss berry is 1 of the worst murderers in lebanon.
19 January 2014, 22:32
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ba'ath clown pretending to be lebanese...or just a really, really, really, really stupid lebanese person??...hmmmm....
19 January 2014, 23:20
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josebs, LOL are you for real? No Lebanese or Christian could come up with such stupid and ignorant comment is Bashar hiring retards for his propaganda department, this is just a little sample of Syrian regime's crimes in Lebanon from 1973-1990, source: Aoun's website
http://www.tayyar.org/NR/rdonlyres/D8726CC4-B415-4DFF-A497-81363ABBC490/0/SyrianChronicles021214_US.htm
19 January 2014, 23:42
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josebs, between 1976 and 2005 Lebanon was ruled from Damascus you fool. No one has committed crimes like your Syrian regime and its terrorists, followed further back by Israel and then the PLO and allies. And that is a fact.. Yasser Arafat was under the thumb of Hafez, he at first thought otherwise but in 1976 quickly found out he was wrong. He tried to mount a comeback in 1986 with the Syrian army still out of West Beirut after it ran away ahead of Israeli army's advance but he failed.
19 January 2014, 23:53
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josebs, one thing you are obviously not is Lebanese, in fact you are as Lebanese as sagh is Chinese. No Lebanese no matter his sect or political affiliation would come up with this idiotic lie "in the 80s/90s the only person that came in and protected many of the Christian form being massacred was Hafez Al Assad", not even a Lebanese from pro Syrian SSNP or Marada.
20 January 2014, 01:18
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josephani, you are a low-life… take your filthy, hypocritical comments back to the gutter where they came from.
20 January 2014, 08:44
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Mystic, I am sure you and the other Assad boot polishers share josephani's views and foul mouth.
20 January 2014, 01:13
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the_snore, the sooner you stop being a pompous wind bag the better. President Sleiman, has a lot more support then that lunatic Aoun you are always praising.
20 January 2014, 04:21
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these syrian alawites, sagh, josephani, josh bustany all have the exact same traits: poor english skills, pretending to be lebanese christian and have their head firmly in between bashar's butt cheeks. we can smell your taqqiya from a mile away you filth. how much are you getting paid to do this?
