Aoun Insists on 'Proportional Representation or Electing President by Popular Vote'
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun reiterated Tuesday that the country's political crisis can only be resolved through staging parliamentary polls under a proportional representation law or electing a new president by a “popular vote,” on the eve of a national dialogue meeting called for by Speaker Nabih Berri.
“We want to return authority to the Lebanese people, the source of all authorities. We want to devise a proportional representation law, hold parliamentary elections and then elect a president,” said Aoun after the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform bloc in Rabieh.
“But if they want to elect the president first, we support such a move, but that must take place through a popular vote,” he added.
Aoun noted that “all Lebanese want a proportional representation law,” pointing out that “the election of a president by a popular vote frees him of foreign pressures.”
Turning to the dialogue session that will be held on Wednesday, Aoun urged all participants to “engage in talks to build a state, not a farm.”
“The Lebanese people do not trust this government and I'm afraid that they (dialogue parties) might suggest 'changing the people',” Aoun quipped, emphasizing that proportional representation “ensures fairness for all Lebanese, not only Christians.”
As for the garbage crisis, Aoun said the FPM will propose “a complete plan containing new ideas,” noting that “there are certain issues that the municipalities cannot resolve.”
The crisis began in July when the country's main landfill in Naameh closed and pungent garbage started piling up in Beirut and its outskirts sparking angry popular protests.
Berri has noted that the presidential deadlock is the first item on the agenda of the dialogue, and that he would then move to another item if the rival parties failed to agree on it.
The interlocutors are expected to discuss ways to end the vacuum at Baabda Palace, the resumption of the work of parliament and the cabinet, a new electoral draft-law, legislation allowing Lebanese expats to obtain the nationality, administrative decentralization and ways to support the army and the Internal Security Forces.
Y.R.
08 September 2015, 18:42
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Aoun: Referring the waste management problem to municipalities will not resolve the crisis.
what will? You have vetoed every possible solution so far.
And Sami Gemayel exposed this hypocrite.... Aoun has been calling for decentralization specifically regarding waste management yet he now opposes it.
الجميل: كافة الأطراف السياسية مواقفة على خطة الوزير شهيب باستثناء فريق واحد هو ذاته طالب في الماضي بلا مركزية النفايات والإفراج عن أموال البلديات.
08 September 2015, 18:45
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Aoun: We want to return authority to its source, to the Lebanese people
If the current parliament elected you President, Will you still be calling for direct elections by the people? I bet not. It has nothing to do with Christian rights or people's power it is all about Aoun and his family.
Sami Gemayel answered you :
الجميل: البلد معطل منذ 10 سنوات من أجل شخص والأسوأ من كل ذلك يبتزوننا بموضوع النفايات من أجل التعيينات العسكرية وكل ذلك باسم "حقوق المسيحيين".
الجميل: لو نجحت التسوية في مجلس النواب هل كنا سمعنا طروحات انتخاب الرئيس من الشعب؟
08 September 2015, 18:48
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Gemayel: It is unacceptable to suspend governments and elections for months for the sake of one person and what's worse is that they are blackmailing us by threatening that they will block solutions for the garbage crisis if we don't approve raising the retirement age of top military officers. This selfishness is being practiced under the excuse of "Christian rights."
08 September 2015, 18:51
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Destructive selfish man who only cares about himself. No principles, No honor, No morals.
08 September 2015, 18:54
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Bassil was Minister of Energy and Water for FIVE years from 13/11/2009 until 4/2/2014. He referred to his ministry as «هي وزارة الطاقة والطاقات اللبنانية»
Indeed it was the ministry of “potentials” but of a different kind; potential for corruption, embezzlement and becoming a multi-millionaire. He pledged he would provide 24/24 electricity and for that he and his party demanded around $1.7 bn from the government to be granted to his ministry with absolute authority over the way to spend it without accountability or means of audit. He declined other means to finance the project through Arab and international Donors investment funds because the donor country appoints an independent auditing authority. He also argued against private electric companies such as Zahle Electric Company.
Today Bassil is urging the people of Lebanon to join him in his demands of the government to provide basic services to its people such as electricity and water!
08 September 2015, 18:55
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Prime Time News 07/09/2015 - 33 عاما... ولا كهرباء
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUL5E36tOTs
The FPM and its allies the Tashnaq have been in charge of the Ministry of Energy for the last TEN years..... 10 years people and we still don't have electricity!
08 September 2015, 19:07
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don't forget the scandal behind the diesel deals and the fatma gul ship that took him 9 months to get it to start its engines.
09 September 2015, 06:13
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Your correction flamethrower will not help change FACTS.
Gebran Bassil was minister of energy during the Hariri government.
Lebanese government of November 2009
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_government_of_November_2009
Gebran Bassil was minister of energy during the Mikati government
Lebanese government of June 2011
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_government_of_June_2011
Which makes it 5 years... lol.
08 September 2015, 19:42
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phoenix, every time i listen to him i cringe.... the inconsistencies, contradictions, the lack of principles are beyond comprehension.
08 September 2015, 20:44
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phoenix you giving him too much credit, i can assure he's much worse than this.
08 September 2015, 19:45
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General Aoun with a further important message from the heart full of ideas that will surely be quoted by generations to come all over the world, listen..
http://sendvid.com/yi36lzfn
09 September 2015, 02:02
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AOUN's dreams : If I am president
- the master bedroom in baa da will be for sayyid. Me in the servants chief room
- I will suck all the finance money to help HA (my way to be grateful)
-I won't bother to prepare any speech. All what I have to do is to read what is dictated by Iran
- all presidential guards from Loyalist HA. I don't trust the army even under the command of sil
- all my opponent will have their final tickets cut starting by the christians (like in glorious 1990 years)
- non Christian opponents will be left to deal with HA after my death (why bother)
- all rubbish will be dumped in Meerab
- by that time I won't be able to walk but my chair will be wheeled by Russian girll
- people interest : toss I am already president and after me the deluge
09 September 2015, 02:52
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Aoun as president
- I already changed my mind about armed HA: as the majority wish, there will be only political HA because the Lebanese army will have a modern name lebanese Iranian HA army.
- mass production of RIP for dead christians.
That's what saw in my yesterday nightmare
09 September 2015, 05:21
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I see the Aouni have the thumbs down crew out trolling. As if that idiocy will cancel out the idiocy of their giddo micho
09 September 2015, 05:23
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I see the Aouni have the thumbs down crew out trolling. As if that idiocy will cancel out the idiocy of their giddo micho
09 September 2015, 12:13
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Somebody needs to feel the catharsis in putting an end to this lunatic's miserable life.
09 September 2015, 15:49
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“The Lebanese people do not trust this government and I'm afraid that they (dialogue parties) might suggest 'changing the people',” Aoun quipped."
Leh inta and your allies in Hizb what exactly did you do? You ruined this country, those who could afford it - the educated and the ambitious - left the country to seek better fortunes in a country where you don't exist, and now Lebanon is dominated by an idiot majority. How's that for changing the people?
09 September 2015, 17:58
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In his frustrated quest to capture the presidency Aoun is slowly slipping into a senile and miserable man on his last gasp!!! Painful to watch.
09 September 2015, 18:53
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Naharnet, get off my back, stop deleting my posts will you??!! Aoun is sick.
09 September 2015, 18:59
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ex-fpm believes what he writes? Then he is very stupid. If Aoun and "his family" have the most votes he should be President in a Democracy. Everything he said is true whether he is corrupt or not. Is it any different for Hariri and his family or Clinton and her family or Bush and his family? Or Putin or Assad and their families? You people need to grow up and take responsibility for yourselves instead of living off handouts from Saudi Arabia and Iran , United States and France and then letting criminals divide the spoils. Lebanon is hopeless because of people like you who want to blame other sects leaders because your own leaders are thieves. And by the way the " crisis" did not begin when garbage started piling up , this "crisis" began in 1948.
10 September 2015, 10:57
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Can someone explain to me how 'proportional representation' can be implemented in Lebanon? Thanks
