Aoun in Anti-Extension Rhetoric on Friday: Threats and Promises
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Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun is expected on Friday to deliver a slashing speech and announce that the ministers representing him in the government would stop attending sessions if it failed to appoint new security officials.
While some sources said Aoun would withdraw his ministers and keep their resignation as an option, other officials stressed that the FPM chief would not announce his upcoming steps.
He would only remind officials and the people at a press conference he is scheduled to hold in Rabieh about the dangers of violating the law in extending the terms of current senior security officers, they said.
The FPM has been calling on the appointment of new officials and has rejected outright the extension of the mandates of the army and police chiefs.
There have been reports that Aoun wants to have his son-in-law Commando Regiment chief Brig. Gen. Chamel Roukoz as army chief.
Roukoz's tenure ends in October while the term of Army Commander Gen. Jean Qahwaji expires at the end of September.
Internal Security Forces leader Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Basbous is also set to retire in June.
Some sources said that Aoun could propose a solution to the extension crisis by calling on naming three military candidates and allow the cabinet to chose the most competent to replace Qahwaji.
Aoun's rhetoric is also expected to focus on the presidential deadlock, said the officials, who made remarks to several newspapers published Thursday.
MPs failed once again Wednesday to elect a successor to President Michel Suleiman, whose term ended in May last year.
Speaker Nabih Berri adjourned the 23rd presidential electoral session to June 3 over lack of quorum.
The Loyalty to the Resistance bloc of Hizbullah and Aoun's Change and Reform bloc, in addition to other blocs in the March 8 alliance, have been boycotting the elections.
Some sources expected Aoun to promise the people on the implementation of an initiative that he had proposed in June last year.
The FPM chief, who is a presidential candidate, had called for a “limited constitutional amendment” that would allow the people to elect their head of state in an attempt to resolve the presidential deadlock.
Aoun has said that his proposal lies in allowing only Christians to vote for their candidates in the first round.
The system then allows the polls to be held at the level of the entire nation to pave way for both Muslims and Christians to choose the two candidates who received the majority of votes in the first round.
G.K.
H.K.
14 May 2015, 10:58
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Caporal believes he is the genius, the extraordinary, above De Gaulle, Eisenhower, and Churchill. Better than Napoleon (he loves when people call him NapoleAoun), the new St Paul (on the road to Damascus), he just cannot understand why people are not begging him to be the president and the savior (some people who visit him kneel in front of him and touch his pants asking for a benediction! Or kiss his hand.... ).
3an jad Zalameh mareed.
14 May 2015, 14:09
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Taratataaa General!! your the best leader ever ya refi3 ras el christians.
lvu :*
14 May 2015, 14:31
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Sophia, are you sure the Christians are better with Der General? So if I take your Der General and give you Two 2 thats 1 and 2 bottles of Ajax or 2 bottles of J&B ( for Lebanon, s sake) would you accept .. take the deal and just .. let people have a clean life lunatics free. What do you say?
14 May 2015, 16:07
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The only "Christian right" that Aoun "destroyed" is the right to be crucified by your beloved takfiri hysterical apes.
Also, how come you speak for Christians now? Are you even a Christian? Is it allowed in your home country KSA?
14 May 2015, 16:11
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Mo Wati n, who are you talking to? ClAoun's follower? Keep up the good work, follow him to the old house in fanar/3saforieh. How come you are defending this pure real lunatic?
14 May 2015, 16:11
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mowaten you are not Lebanese and everybody here knows you are an iranian shia posting to disrupt the forum so cut the BS and go worship your hussain.
14 May 2015, 17:36
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fre edo marc h: the comment was in reply to geha, so take a wild guess as to who i was talking to.
14 May 2015, 10:50
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Some Christians supported Arafat, they were traitors.
Some Christians supported Hafez Assad, they were traitors.
Some Christians support the Butcher, they are traitors.
Some Christians support Ebola, they are traitors.
Some Christians support the Caporal, they are traitors.
14 May 2015, 17:43
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according to humble, only those who serve the sauds or israel are true patriots
14 May 2015, 18:06
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Kershak Ali, do you make even little sense, just respond to the facts humble stated and stop being A clAoun.
14 May 2015, 18:32
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They cannot respond to the accusations. That is why they take the tangent and change subject. They must feel the message is addressed to them.
14 May 2015, 11:01
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Retire already! You've caused this country enough damage, death and division...
14 May 2015, 15:08
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(1). In the spirit of the ongoing talks between the LF and the FPM, personally I will limit myself to voicing my opinion only over Aoun and his position. On paper yes, maybe Qahwaji, Roukos and Babous will reach the end of their mandates respectively, but on the ground this is definitely not the time to create a crisis over it, as if we didn't have enough on our plates already! These 3 generals, had it been that their work on the ground was of the average type, or in better times, then yes, the argument could be brought up, but in light of the extremely delicate and crucial role they're all playing in the fight against terrorism coming from IS and all the other Islamist radical groups, plus having to secure the country from criminality, plus also having to keep a close thumb over Hezbollah's sheer madness, weapons delivery, plus having to keep the country glued together, Aoun must not attempt to push the matter any further as Lebanon is right now at an alarmingly difficult period.
14 May 2015, 15:15
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(2). Aoun must understand that he is root cause together with Hezbollah for the delay and abeyance of electing a new president, now a year behind schedule. The constitutional void at the nation's highest post is lending Lebanon to the wildest negative interpretations amongst which is the moribund economy getting worse by the day. Masalan, what to do with the Syrians who are taking the jobs and occupations of the Lebanese, must they be left to continue like this and unchecked? The government has many issues piling atop each other and the situation must not be allowed to go on forever without solutions, so the first thing is to elect a new president during this May and no further. Once the nation begins to feel more stable security wise and economically, then one by one all the issues will be solved. If Aoun cannot comprehend this simple fact, then let his cabinet members resign and let's have a transitional cabinet since it is not doing that much either.
14 May 2015, 16:11
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Eh resign and give M14ers free reign to bankrupt the country? Every time M14ers had unchecked control over the government their fortunes swelled by billions while the country's finances got plundered.
14 May 2015, 16:30
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Mo Wati n, are you sure about the Billions that were taken an fortunes.Let us have a list please and sources by minustry, and we will aplaud your ClAoun and Bassil, for their honored why of life and clean conscience.
