Report: Franjieh Mediating to End Berri-Aoun Spat
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Marada leader Suleiman Franjieh is mediating between Speaker Nabih Berri and Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun to bridge their differences, As Safir daily reported on Friday.
The newspaper said that Franjieh visited Berri in Ain el-Tineh on Thursday following talks he held with Aoun in Rabieh.
Differences between the two men grew after Aoun’s Change and Reform bloc and other Christian blocs boycotted a parliamentary session to protest the approval of the joint parliamentary committees’ proposal to employ Electricite du Liban’s contract workers.
The lawmakers argued that the permanent employment of those workers would create a sectarian imbalance at the state-run firm as around 80 percent of them belong to non-Christian sects and most of them support Berri, who is a Shiite.
Energy Minister Jebran Bassil, who is Aoun’s son-in-law had previously proposed to allow 700 contract workers to stand for an official exam, out of some 2,500 employees, while the rest would become employees at private companies under a three-month probation period.
The approval of the full-time employment led to accusations by the FPM that Berri violated the protocol.
While sources close to Aoun did not confirm Franjieh’s initiative, highly-informed sources told As Safir that efforts are exerted by the Lebanese authorities to find a consensual solution to the open ended-strike launched by the contract workers to appease the EDL administration, parliament, the energy minister and the bill collectors.
The workers have been demanding the cabinet to pay their June and July salaries and to publish their permanent employment decision in the official gazette.
20 July 2012, 09:15
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there is nothing that can be done to repair matters between aoun and berri :)
20 July 2012, 09:47
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Can you please also add few names to his title: elliterate, Drug dealer, arms smuggler. thank you
20 July 2012, 10:03
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I do agree with you FT on this, but the problem we have is that aoun and his croenies are not better :)
so, Tanjara we lakit khataha, if you get my meaning :)
20 July 2012, 11:21
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Dear Geha, aren't all our political leaders the same?? Geagea, Gemayel, Chamoun, Jumblatt, Arslan, Franjieh, etc... Those who have been at war for 15 years are those who claim today to save the country!! What a mascarade! We need new blood of the likes of Ziad Baroud, Demianos Kattar, and others who can make real changes...but would "THEY" let them??? 7aram hal balad
22 July 2012, 03:28
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GB we lebanese are happy to criticise the governement/leadership and all politicians on a daily basis, yet queue up anxiously for our bribe money come election time. My 4 year old son costs me more than the $300 for three years, i should raise instead a fully grown lebanese of voting age:).. Until people get some self respect and dignity back and stop being bought for the price of a pair of shoes nothing will ever change.
20 July 2012, 13:35
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Little Sulieman,is and always will be insignificant,especially now with the Syrian regime been on the nose.The criminal Franjieh gang gambled on the Syrian regime to be around for ever, guess what?they will pay the consequences soon.And Flamethrower seems to be changing he's tune,or may be he's going soft.
20 July 2012, 15:47
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It would be a mistake to assume that hard core Aounists have minds of their own. They cheer for whatever their beloved ex general stance of the day is, right or wrong, they just don't care. Recall when the ex-general publicly insulted the previous Batrak? They all conveniently forgot that Bkiriki is mas2at rasson but when the new Batrak tabtablon they suddenly remembered to respect it. A snake in the grass will always be a snake in the grass even if goes from orange to yellow and back to blend into the scenery and make like it is harmless.
20 July 2012, 15:50
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Never underestimate the other person ! yah habibi al geshmeh yali mabyefhamou... god bless you abou Tony .silent but deadly.
20 July 2012, 21:58
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Read my post above about Aoun corruptibility.... Do you want to put your future in the hands of such people?
22 July 2012, 03:23
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now there is a disagreement he is NO GOOD and better off without him. newsflash, all these guys have never been good, and would never change, unfortunatley you only realised this through a different set of circumstances.
