Fadlallah Calls for Dealing 'Positively' with Nasrallah's Proposal
Hizbullah MP Hassan Fadlallah on Sunday called on the political parties to deal “positively” with the latest proposal that was launched by Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
Nasrallah's remarks “opened the doors for the possibility of resolving the political crisis, because we want our country to overcome the current situation, especially at the level of addressing the political crises that involve the presidential vacuum and the electoral law,” said Fadlallah during an educational ceremony in the southern town of al-Taybeh.
In a speech on August 13, Nasrallah had hinted that Hizbullah would accept the re-designation of al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri as prime minister in return for the election of Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun as president and Speaker Nabih Berri as head of parliament.
“We do not want others to deal with this call in a negative manner, because we have opened the doors and said that we will act positively and that we want to facilitate things in our country,” Fadlallah added.
“Continuing the intransigence and stubbornness will not lead to positive results. This intransigence has been running in Lebanon for two and a half years now and it has failed to address any of our political problems,” the MP said.
“It has deepened the political system's crisis and it has started to jeopardize the entire structure of the State,” he warned.
“Some parties in Lebanon must meet positivity with positivity instead of betting on foreign forces. They must rather act according to local, domestic equations and we do not want to engage in a war of words with any of those who are launching random stances nowadays,” Fadlallah went on to say.
Lebanon has been without a president since the term of Michel Suleiman ended in May 2014 and Hizbullah, MP Michel Aoun's Change and Reform bloc and some of their allies have been boycotting the parliament's electoral sessions, stripping them of the needed quorum.
Hariri, who is close to Saudi Arabia, launched an initiative in late 2015 to nominate Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh for the presidency but his proposal was met with reservations from the country's main Christian parties as well as Hizbullah.
Hariri's move prompted Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea to endorse the nomination of Aoun, his long-time Christian rival.
The supporters of Aoun's presidential bid argue that he is more eligible than Franjieh to become president due to the size of his parliamentary bloc and his bigger influence in the Christian community.
21 August 2016, 20:00
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really naive the Southern is, why this obsession with wahabism and zionisim!?
21 August 2016, 23:53
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Those were no proposals. Those were edicts from a wannabe self styled supreme leader so deluded as to think that putting on a Halloween costume and waving his finger about somehow gives him legitimacy.
22 August 2016, 01:52
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Usually when I hear the word "positive" from the Takia, it's basically a veiled threat. Not a single word from them can be taken legitimately, as they are a prime cause of the presidential block. Their goal is dominance and imposing their Iranian rule on Lebanon. In reality, most sold their souls, faith and very nationality out to them as the dollar is more important.
22 August 2016, 04:05
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"“Continuing the intransigence and stubbornness will not lead to positive results. This intransigence has been running in Lebanon for two and a half years now and it has failed to address any of our political problems,” the MP said."
Simple solution: Exterminate the foreign cancer that is killing Lebanon - exterminate the Iranian Occupation Forces, all of them!
22 August 2016, 09:22
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@terrorist: if hezbollah was really as your propaganda claims, you and your sold-out leaders would have been in body bags ages ago.
22 August 2016, 10:05
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@mowaten
E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T comment.
Still laughing since January.
Thank you Thank you
