President Election Session Postponed for 21st Time
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Speaker Nabih Berri postponed on Thursday for the 21st time the session to elect a new head of state over lack of quorum as civil society groups rallied near parliament to protest the ongoing vacuum.
The session was adjourned to April 22.
President Michel Suleiman's term ended in May without the election of a successor as the ongoing disputes between the rival March 8 and 14 camps have thwarted the polls.
Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun's Change and Reform and Hizbullah's Loyalty to the Resistance blocs have been boycotting the elections, demanding that political powers agree on a compromise presidential candidate.
Several civil society groups held a rally on Thursday outside the parliament in Beirut's Riad al-Solh to protest the procrastination of lawmakers regarding the presidential vacuum.
Only few MPs have been attending the sessions.
H.K.
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02 April 2015, 15:58
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Why is this man smiling? He is grossly incompetent as a Speaker of Parliament. It is his duty to summons and to keep the Members of Parliament in session until a President is elected, that is, no one is to leave the room until an election is completed and those who stay away to boycott sessions are to be visited by the Sergeant of Arms and his Deputies and escorted, by force if necessary, to the Chamber to create a necessary quorum.
This guy is no Speaker, he is an empty suit who serves his money pimp more than the duties of his office.
02 April 2015, 19:58
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What choice does he have when you have treasonous MPs who refuse to come to Parliament.
03 April 2015, 00:11
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Those tresonous MPs are his allies. And this treasonous man himself shut th Parliament down for 18 months until he and his allies got what they wanted.
