Asiri Denies Saudi Arabia Interfering in Presidential Election
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awadh Asiri said on Friday that his country intervenes in local Lebanese affairs, denying that contacts are ongoing between Riyadh and al-Mustaqbal movement chief Saad Hariri regarding the presidential poll.
“The kingdom doesn’t interfere with al-Mustaqbal or any other party” in Lebanese affairs, Asiri said in remarks published in As Safir newspaper.
He repudiated reports saying that Saudi Arabia “is pushing forward a certain candidate to the presidential post... Our stance is clear and final.”
However, An Nahar newspaper reported that Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun is seeking Hariri's support before announcing his candidacy.
Aoun continuously said that he will not announce his candidacy for the presidency if there was no political consensus on him.
As Safir said that Hariri “is awaiting for Saudi Arabia's approval before granting Aoun his consensus.”
Sources close to Rabieh told the daily that “Hariri is true to his word... He is awaiting for the Saudi decision and will inform his allies once he receives it.”
The parliament failed to elect a new president on Wednesday, with no candidate securing the two-thirds of the votes needed to win and many lawmakers leaving their ballots blank.
The parliament will hold a second vote on April 30, in which the winning candidate will need only a simple majority of 65 votes.
On Wednesday, 124 of the parliament's 128 members were present, with 48 casting their ballots for March 14 official, Lebanese Forces leader, Samir Geagea.
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25 April 2014, 08:04
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"Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awadh Asiri said on Friday that his country intervenes in local Lebanese affairs".
Everybody already knows that.
25 April 2014, 09:08
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I suppose KSA is interfering by telling and/or forcing their Lebanese MP allies to 1) vote with blanks 2) leave the session and ensure there would be no quorum.
25 April 2014, 08:04
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"“The kingdom doesn’t interfere with al-Mustaqbal or any other party” in Lebanese affairs, Asiri said in remarks published in As Safir newspaper."
LOL! What else is he going to claim? That Saudi Arabia is a shining beacon of democracy? LOL.
25 April 2014, 08:36
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what else is your hizb going to say except "I am defending shia villages in Syria"
25 April 2014, 08:46
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Don't forget they are also defending Lebanon from the horde's of cannibals and capitalist that were about to descend on the Lebanon to pick it's bones clean.
25 April 2014, 08:40
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I hear the Saudi's are going to station their own occupation militia in Lebanon and have started building a command bunker next to Nasrallah's.
25 April 2014, 09:00
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They had their own occupation militia in Lebanon for 15 years. It was called the PLO, and it was responsible for starting Lebanon's civil war.
25 April 2014, 18:56
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am surprise you know all this ya karim wow..how old were you in 1974...were you even born ammo?
25 April 2014, 17:36
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That's right my Jihadi son information beacon manning Naharnet pretending to be Aounist, also pretending to be pro army anti Wahhabi patriot, and pretending to be a Southern lunatic Islamic revolution supporter, and also pretending to be a secular Shiite, we hate those Saudis. Only the other day our spy withing Change & Reform bloc Hajj Abbass Hashem spotted Hajj Michel Naiim Aoun and Hajj Gebran Bassil at breakfast wearing matching 3abayas and disha dashas eating their All-Brand® oatmeal and dates with their hands! They'd even duct taped two small throw pillows on top of the cat then crazy glued it to the sandbox. The little critter looked humiliated, what's wrong with them it's a cat not a camel! I'm worried those two are up to something, Remember Hajj Michel started two wars killing thousands just to become president when he failed deserted and ran away, so anything is possible with him. But don't worry son, Hajj Abbass is keeping an eye on them and reporting back directly to me.
25 April 2014, 17:39
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Are you kidding! Why was this posted in the public forum again, I though I was sending a PM to our man in Naharnet. This darn Atari pong thingamajig is conspiring against me! Call our tech Abbas Patel I need him here! Whadya mean our tech's name is Chang Hajj Hassan, then who the heck is Abbas Patel? What, he doesn't exist.. I'm just calling every Sri Lankans I see Abbas Patel, why wasn't I informed this before? You did not want to contradict me because I looks like I know what I'm doing, haha, yeah many people make that mistake, I think it's the beard and turban, they look real don't they.
25 April 2014, 19:00
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Funny, who's being funny I am very serious my gassy friend.. btw when I'm gassy I take the Pepto-Bismol, try it.
05 May 2014, 21:26
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I have been hearing on here about this potential Hariri-Aoun alliance. Can someone in an objective manner explain when, how, why this happened? I thought Hariri was with LF?
