Report: FPM to Suspend Participation in Cabinet over Security Appointments Dispute
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MP Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement ministers have reportedly decided to suspend their participation over the dispute over security appointments, reported the Kuwaiti al-Anba daily on Sunday.
Sources told the daily that the FPM took this decision after reaching a dead end with the Mustaqbal bloc over security and military appointments.
They predicted that its allies in Hizbullah would back Aoun's move.
This position was relayed to the FPM chief during his recent meeting with Hizbullah leader Sayyd Hassan Nasrallah on April 29.
The cabinet is torn between either extending or appointing new security officials, whose terms are about to end, in light of the inability to reach political consensus or two thirds of the cabinet votes on the issue, and the FPM's adamant stances to appoint new ones.
Media reports had said that Aoun is seeking political consensus over 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.
Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji's term ends in September.
M.T.
10 May 2015, 12:02
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Damn with any Christian who is a dog to Ebola and works against the Christians.
Damn with this Caporal who is a liar, corrupt, agent, traitor and mentally ill.
Damn with any Christian who accepts a Mutelateh.
Damn with any Christian who supports a traitor, because he becomes a traitor himself.
Damn with any Christian who forgets what the murderers Assad and his son the Butcher did to Lebanon.
Damn with any Christian who seeks orders from the outside.
Damn with any Christian whose heart and soul are filled with violence and war.
Damn with any Christian who doesn't place Lebanon first and foremost and values its independence, freedom and total sovereignty.
10 May 2015, 14:33
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This is the standard FPM "decision" - boycott and obstruction; holding ones breath until one gets ones way, as a spoiled child would do when trying to get what it wants from an adult. In most cases, now that the FPM boycotts the electoral sessions of Parliament because the MPs will not give Aoun the Presidency, Aoun brays that no action can be taken without a President in office to formalize decrees. On this he is correct, but his stance is not principled.
Now that he wants to get a position for his son in law, he demands the appointment, though there is no President in office to issue the decree of appointment. So when it's family, he demands action.
He is an unprincipled charlatan, Aoun. A wrecking ball that has paralyzed the State worse than the Syrians ever did. At least, eventually they did I something, Aounjust says "no", awaiting his demands to be met.
10 May 2015, 20:32
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Well that's just it FT, Jumby and Nerri have not used principles as their calling cards. They are former warlords who change with the wind. Aoun came not to ape these two, but to Change and Reform. When you claim to be the virgin among prostitutes, you shouldn't make press conferences complaining that your John is not splitting the money for your services well.
Not only your Arse, but your hypocracy is showing
10 May 2015, 14:38
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He waits his demands to be met like he used to wait by his phone in Paris for the Americans to call him and plead with him to please go back to Lebanon and save it. Of course, that phone call never came either. He is Walter Mitty living in AounWorld, where he is the Savior, but a frustrated Savior since he is surrounded by people who cannot see his greatness.
In the RealWorld, of course, he is a demented old man, who seeks to control affairs by obstruction without purpose other than to obstruct. In this way, he is destructive and needs to be moved out of the way so that the state can move forward.
10 May 2015, 16:24
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Again tric, go play with ur skinheads friends, enjoy so porto, but don't stay too long in the sun it's not good for ur brain...
