Report: Bassil backpedals on Azour after opposition endorses him
The opposition has tried to agree with Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on a presidential candidate who would enjoy the broadest support in parliament and who was his candidate in the first place, a media report said on Friday.
“It proposed to the FPM leader that ex-minister Jihad Azour be a candidate supported by the entire opposition, but he evaded accepting this proposal in order not to infuriate Hezbollah,” the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported.
“Bassil seemed to prefer an agreement with Hezbollah rather than with the opposition,” the daily added.
