Al-Rahi Reiterates Calls for Election of President: We Want Politicians who Believe in State
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi reiterated calls on politicians to elect a new head of state, denouncing the prolonged vacuum at the Baabda Palace.
“We pray to have politicians who believe in state institutions and the presidency,” al-Rahi said during Sunday's sermon at Bkirki.
The patriarch reiterated calls on lawmakers to to head to the parliament and carry out their duty by electing a new president who sets the interests of the people as a priority.
Al-Rahi considered the president as the only one capable of safeguarding the constitution and the people.
The rivalry between the Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese Forces has led to a lack of quorum in 16 electoral sessions in parliament, amid a boycott by the MPs of FPM chief MP Michel Aoun and Hizbullah.
The presidential seat has been vacant since president Michel Suleiman's term ended on May 25.
11 January 2015, 12:28
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What state? Does the Patriarch Rahi means in this case the current sectarian inept regime that has been in place since the creation of modern Lebanon by the French imperialism in late 1920 that brought with it the so called National Pact of 1943 and later the Taef accords of 1989.
11 January 2015, 12:58
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unfortunalety almost all our so called politicians are muppets for other countries
to have real politicians for the people to the people is a good election law based on proportionality
and let the people vote for the president
122 mp can be subdued by force or money but 4 million people cannot be subdued by force neither money
god bless democracy and liberty
11 January 2015, 13:34
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Aoun wants to destroy the state institution and establishment, he told his officers as much before he started his destructive wars back in 1988.
11 January 2015, 16:23
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Dear Batrak,
Please tell the Christians what you already know, who is the one who is destroying the Christians.
11 January 2015, 21:41
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Dear Batrak,
the caporal doesn't believe in the state...he is working for a Mutelateh which will destroy the state (and the Christians)
