Report: Aoun Does Not Oppose Hariri for Premiership
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Founder of the Free Patriotic Movement and wanna-be president MP Michel Aoun does not reject that al-Mustaqbal leader MP Saad Hariri holds the post of prime minister, if he himself was elected for the top state post, media reports said on Monday.
“The Free Patriotic Movement does not have a problem if Hariri held the premiership post,” sources close to Aoun said, but added that if that is to happen it should be done “within a comprehensive settlement on national balances that are a red line for the FPM and Hizbullah party.”
The sources highlighted the latest talks between French President Francois Hollande and Hariri where he said that the situation in Lebanon will not be surpassed unless Aoun is elected as president.
Early in June, reports said that Hollande has told Hariri during the latter's trip in France, that the only solution to the presidential impasse is through the election of Aoun.
Aoun sources did not deny reports that Aoun received “official French talks” that he be elected as president, and that the base of this suggestion came after the terror attacks in Paris and the migrants crisis in Europe.
France has therefore saw it necessary to help end the crisis in Lebanon so it does not aggravate in light of the enormous number of displaced Syrians in Lebanon, and believes that a moderate figure similar to Hariri is best to reduce the extreme situation in the country.
Lebanon has been in a state of presidential vacuum since May 2014 when the term of the president ended.
Conflicts between the March 8 and March 14 alliance have thwarted attempts aiming at electing a successor.
Aoun and Marada Party MP Suleiman Franjieh are candidates for the presidential post in addition to an independent figure MP Henri Helou.
20 June 2016, 13:40
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“The Free Patriotic Movement does not have a problem if Hariri held the premiership post,” sources close to Aoun said, but added that if that is to happen it should be done “within a comprehensive settlement on national balances that are a red line for the FPM and Hizbullah party.”
Go elect yourself first before you make these empty commitments! delusional and demented old man.
20 June 2016, 14:52
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I like Hariri, he is a good man, but a terrible politician. He keeps assuming that his opponents harbor good will and that if he shows it they will reciprocate. His opponents in reality want to eat him for lunch, and Hariri keeps giving them knives and forks.
20 June 2016, 16:42
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a presidential candidate does to parliament to elect himself. a wanna be president obstructs unless he is appointed. So, the Tueinis are correct.
20 June 2016, 19:00
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Saad Rafic Hariri doesn't need a deserter's authorization for the premiership. Never did, never will. The senile man does however need Nasrallah's authorization to speak to the media or to Saad Rafic Hariri.
20 June 2016, 19:05
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Rifi should be Prime Minister, not Hariri. As Beiruti says, Hariri is a good person, but he is not strong enough to counteract the evil policies of his opponents.
1. They never should have backed down after May 7 to give "Veto Power" in Cabinet to Hezbollah.
2. They never should have allowed Hezbollah to bring down the government by resignation in 2011.
3. They never should have allowed Michel Suleiman to step down as President until a new president was elected to replace him.
4. They never should have allowed anyone from Hezbollah to be be part of any government branch (Cabinet or Parliament) after 5 Hezbollah operatives were indicted, based on evidence, in the terrorist assassination of Rafik Hariri.
