Report: Change and Reform Ministers Will Not Resign over Security Appointments Dispute
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The ministers of the Change and Reform bloc will not resign from cabinet over the dispute on the security appointments, reported As Safir newspaper on Wednesday.
Sources from Rabieh explained that bloc chief MP Michel Aoun is not willing to “relinquish the positions in cabinet in favor for others.”
“The response to the extension of the terms of security officials, should it happen, will take place from an unexpected place,” they added.
The response will be revealed before June 5, they said.
The Change and Reform bloc is represented at cabinet by Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil and Education Minister Elias Bou Saab.
Aoun is pushing the case of security appointments to be discussed at cabinet before June 5 on the basis that there is a chance to find a replacement to Internal Security Forces chief Ibrahim Basbous, said As Safir.
There will also be enough time to find a replacement to Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji, whose term ends in September.
Basbous is expected to retire in June.
The military positions in Lebanon are suffering as a result of the months-long presidential vacuum in light of the parliament's failure to elect a successor to Michel Suleiman.
Media reports had said that Aoun is seeking political consensus on the appointment of his son-in-law Commando Regiment chief Brig. Gen. Chamel Roukoz as army chief as part of a package for the appointment of other top security officers.
Roukoz's tenure ends in October 2015.
Aoun has denied that he had made such a proposal.
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22 April 2015, 08:33
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“The response to the extension of the terms of security officials, should it happen, will take place from an unexpected place,” they added.
hehehe! yes, they will launch Operation FPM over KSA;)
22 April 2015, 10:01
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More and more Christians are abandonning these liars and corrupt people.
22 April 2015, 10:19
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8 minutes ago FM Jebran Bassil: There is a real plan to keep Syrian refugees in Lebanon and we should confront it.
of course, Geagea and Hariri started the war in Syria and displaced the Syrians because they have a plan to keep the refugees in Lebanon and change the demographics;) Keep playing on the Christian insecurities bravo!
22 April 2015, 14:55
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Change and Deform ministers will not resign? Shi akid, shi tabi3i, ma entou bass btit la2atou 3alal shaghleh, ma3sh bit fikkou. Walaw, shou fi shi jdid?
22 April 2015, 14:56
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whyaskwhy, bro are you promoting the Claoun to Colonel, this lunatic is not fit even to be a Caporal, even that is too much for him.
22 April 2015, 18:54
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Why would they resign? And give up their veto power? More empty threats from an empty political class that makes these vacuous threats one day only to take them back the next. You can tell, the people of Lebanon are not watching, not holding these clowns accountable for their incompetence, their greed, their treasonous conduct and their veniality.
22 April 2015, 20:32
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As we've been accustomed to with the members of the Change and Reform, they huff and puff, get winded and take a nap.
We saw it with their "undying support" of their minister of Labor Charbel Nahas and how they promised to stand with him as he refused to sign what Ibrahim Kanaan called the unconstitutional budget. Then Hezbollah decided this was blocking the "work" of their government, under the bus C&R sent Nahas and replaced him with HA's tool Jreisati.
There was also the "usurped Christian post" of General security chief; Much hand ringing, accusations and fist pumping from the C&R self styled defenders of the Christian rights, "we will claw it back the first chance we get". That chance came.. and then went in 2011 when HA ordered the post stays Shiite, cannot trust anyone not from al bee2at al 7adinat you see. All ten C&R ministers voted (hell) yea and not a harumph in the bunch!
