Report: Equal Distribution of Sovereign Portfolios among March 8, 14 Camps Suggested for Govt.
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The latest efforts to form a new government have resulted in the proposal to distribute the four sovereign portfolios equally between the March 8 and 14 camps, reported An Nahar daily on Saturday.
It said that the March 8 camp will be granted the foreign and finance ministries, while the March 14 camp will be granted the defense and interior ministries.
The Free Patriotic Movement of MP Michel Aoun will be given the foreign ministry along with a services portfolio.
The telecommunication and energy ministries will be handed over to President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam.
A main obstacle in the formation of the new cabinet has been the FPM's refusal to relinquish the energy and telecommunications ministries, currently held by caretaker Ministers Jebran Bassil and Nicolas Sehnaoui respectively.
Widely-informed sources told As Safir newspaper that Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat had spearheaded the efforts over the distribution of sovereign portfolios.
Salam, former Premier Saad Hariri, Speaker Nabih Berri, and Hizbullah all agreed to the suggestion.
The party had however set as a condition Aoun's agreement to the proposal before going ahead with it.
Bassil had rejected on Thursday relinquishing the Energy Ministry from the grasp of the FPM.
The sources revealed that Suleiman had suggested to Salam that he resolve this matter, explaining that he cannot sanction any development that the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkirki would view as a “squandering of Christian rights,” reported As Safir.
The rival political powers had reportedly reached agreement to form a 24-member government that grants each of the March 8 and 14 camps and centrists eight ministers.
01 February 2014, 09:12
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economy ministry? I thought it was the finance ministry which was a sovereign portfolio.
01 February 2014, 10:43
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when did aoun came back to lebanon ?
when did geagea was out from jail?
before that Lebanon was a paradise !!!!
01 February 2014, 12:15
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Inno the manager or owner of Zahle electricity said he can provide 24/24 elec at a fraction of the cost. Why didnt they listen to him? Fraction of the cost no commissions?
01 February 2014, 14:44
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we need to have a unified ideology. all these groups have diff outlooks, and some dont believe in the existence of lebanon (ssnp and the likes). its a circus.
01 February 2014, 14:47
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Lets assume he is "m14" but he can solve the elec problem in 4 months at a fraction of the cost you would refuse it, is that what youre trying to say?
01 February 2014, 15:03
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Lebanon forever. You can like or dislike aoun. But the job of bassil in energy was a good effort. Be fair.
Also Aoun is trying to clean the EDL from the bloating in laying off contractuals while Berri wants to employ them and get the country in paying more salary.
01 February 2014, 17:44
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The constitution does not stipulate that the Cabinet is a miniature Parlaiment (regardless of percentages). It only stipulates that sects be represented, President and PM are free to name the list accordingly and present it to Parliament for a vote. PERIOD. Stop hijacking and black-shirting the constitution - just because you are armed to the teeth and call it resistance does not grant you that privilege.
01 February 2014, 23:10
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Does this ring a bell Christopher ?It is hard to be a white man. Hard enough to be a white woman. “White” means “know-it-all”. In white society, the women, except for the fallen women, are the priestess-prostitutes. The white man just have to do their duty and keep the home safe.
Which is to say, the whole thing is a crock. Being currently in a “Global War On Terror” which is increasingly clearly nothing but a war to wipe some tribe of indigenous persons, it grows on us how European culture is sort of a lottery fixation. Nothing is rooted, everything’s a test.
“Like a child rests in its mother’s arms, so will I rest in You.”
Reject any theology in which God is a psychopath.
