Jumblat Meets with Hariri at Center House
Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat held talks Friday evening with al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri.
According to a terse statement issued by Hariri's office, the two leaders discussed “all the political developments in the country.”
The meeting was also attended by Health Minister Wael Abou Faour and Hariri's advisers Nader Hariri and Ghattas Khoury.
Lebanon has been without a president since the term of Michel Suleiman ended in May 2014 and the Free Patriotic Movement, Hizbullah and some of their allies have been boycotting the electoral sessions.
Hariri launched late in 2015 a proposal to nominate Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh for the presidency but his suggestion was rejected by the country's main Christian parties as well as Hizbullah.
Jumblat had initially voiced support for Hariri's move and was even described as the initiative's “architect” but he has recently renewed his backing for the presidential nomination of MP Henri Helou, a member of his centrist Democratic Gathering bloc.
Hizbullah and the FPM, and most recently March 14's Lebanese Forces, have argued that FPM founder MP Michel Aoun is more eligible than Franjieh to become president given the size of his parliamentary bloc and his bigger influence in the Christian community.
Y.R.
06 March 2016, 03:42
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If I get a dollar for every meeting our glorious leaders hold I would be a millionaire. If there would be one positive outcome of every meeting they hold, Lebanon would be head and shoulder above and better than any country on the face of the earth.
06 March 2016, 14:47
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Did they talk about the fact that it was Jumblatt who screwed Hariri when he withdrew his confidence to him after 2006, which then led to Hezbollah gaining power & control thereafter?
One weak person talking to a traitor, and that's the best we have.
Pitty this nation.
