Aoun Says Proportional Representation Draft Law Will Pass 'Eventually'
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Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun stressed on Saturday that the stances adopted by the cabinet provided the country with the necessary stability, noting that the new electoral law based on proportional representation will be approved “ultimately.”
“We fear if Syria lost then extremism and Takfiri thinking will widely spread, such as in northern Lebanon. We can't accept these abnormal cases on our land and that threaten our existence,” Aoun said during a tour in the towns of Jbeil.
He pointed out that the first component to defend the nation and safeguard it is the national unity, which “can be carried out only if we are open to others who are different.”
Aoun noted that Jbeil is deprived from development projects as some “members in the cabinet are obstructing them.”
Concerning the new controversial electoral law, the FPM leader said that a new electoral law based on proportional representation “will be approved eventually.”
“They (the March 14 alliance) have no strong argument to reject it. They will lose the upcoming 2013 parliamentary elections even if we adopted the 1960 electoral law,” Aoun said.
He stressed that change and reform are two necessary elements in Lebanon.
Rival political parties in Lebanon are deeply divided over the electoral law as the Bkirki committee tasked with studying the best representation of Christians in the 2013 parliamentary elections agreed to prepare a study on three draft-laws proposed to the parliament after wrangling between the March 8 majority and March 14 coalition MPs over the conflicting proposals.
The government's draft-law calls for dividing Lebanon into 13 medium-sized districts based on proportionality while the opposition's proposal made by MPs George Adwan, Sami Gemayel and Butros Harb supports the formation of 50 small-sized districts in a winner-takes-all system while a plan suggested by Free Patriotic Movement chief Michel Aoun’s Change and Reform bloc that would allow every sect to elect its own MPs under a proportional representation system with Lebanon as a single district.
29 September 2012, 18:56
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Eventually Aoun will be gone and his destruction of the country and his idiocy will have to be cleaned up, just like the mess of the Shia ruining everything. Everyone else has to pay for and clean up after them.
29 September 2012, 18:57
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look at this mere propaganda just to frighten people and make them hate each other so that he and his hezbo friends sell their populist soup....
he is trying to make people believe that the north has become an islamist region forgetting all the christian villages that live peacefully among muslims....
his hezbo friends have a coran and a kalashnikov as symbols, and they do not threaten our existence, they are as extremists as those he is denouncing?lol
29 September 2012, 19:08
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you know nothing about the north, have you ever been there at least before spitting your hatred of sunnis?
and yes hezbos and FPM are spreading fear and propaganda to exacerbate people feelings and make them hate them just to provoke tensions between the two communities, seeing that bashar is in a bad position....
29 September 2012, 19:27
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i m merely stating facts which you deny. aoun is working for his hezbis friends it is a fact. a minority in the north are salafis, it is a fact. hezbos have a kalashnikov as a symbol and pledge allegiance to foreigners , no other lebanese party did that, it is a fact. M8 supports bashar s regime, it is a fact. hezbos issue a fatwa forbidding any chia to replace those who resigned during siniora s gvt, it is another fact. (your friends too issue fatwas not just salafis my man! so you are defending islamists too, it is another fact...)
so if stating facts is propaganda then yes i m spreading it...
and i am not M14 it is another fact, so you may insult them as much as you want i don t give a sh...
01 October 2012, 04:59
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A new HA scum by the name of Istezz comes out of the blue mimicking (parroting) exact lame posts/statements as schizo Farsi BSThrower.....does one need to say more? It's his same ol games with aliases that come and go. A simple post count clearly shows the entire blog is anti scum HA/Aoun/Assad/Iran while the pathetic Farsi continues to beg for acceptance...get a life!
29 September 2012, 19:13
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but if my memory serves me well, saudi flag isnt the flag of a so called lebanese party which has islamic revolution as a motto, it is the flag of a country... so do not compare what is not comparable...
you are proud to salute the hezbi flag more than the one of your country... haven t they pledge allegiance to iran? i never seen another party in lebanon that has pledge allegiance openly to a foreign country... so be quiet
29 September 2012, 21:21
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hezb is religiously link to iran... lol what a play on words to deny that they receive orders from them... to your knowledge the stupid argument saying that we d be farsi if so is irrelevant... hezb doesn t wantto take over lebanon and impose its laws they know it is impossible, but they control it indirectly! fisrt using their orangina tool to make it look acceptable, then by threatening people with its arsenal! you are so naive....
and M14 do what they want it doesn t concern me. hezb since 2000 has become a terrorist machine in case you re blind. always finding new excuses to keep their weapons! it began before 2000 that when leb will be liberated they d give up. what happened? another excuse to keep them and son on...
29 September 2012, 23:29
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M8 will implode due to their superiority complex and arrogance believing they are the strongest because they have more weapons than the army itself...
and funny how you use examples that definitely have nothing to do with what you are desperately trying to prove. for one example you give, dozens of others are here to contradict your points! but only simple uneducated minds believe in your stories...
just wait and see, history always repeat itself, just get educated and you ll see what i mean!
good little boy...
29 September 2012, 23:50
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i have no allies, i am not M14, so don t mix up things. M14 do whatever they want, i don t care.
but the day the regime that harmed lebanon is over with then lebanon will have its revenge over an enemy that M8 praises! they even thanked it and we see what kind of regime they support, that kills its own people but do nothing against israel not even a gunshot! and they dare call it resistant! we see where the hypocrisy is! but if you support that then you are just a moral accomplice with this regime...
30 September 2012, 00:09
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1/ concerning human shields hezb did the same in 2006 in the south hiding in villages.
2/ when the syrian regime was in place aoun claimed and repeated that every single politician in lebanon, even the most honest one had to collaborate or else die... i guess you would have died rather than collaborating like lebanese politicians did!
3/FPMers always give the argument that aoun changed radically his positions because only fools don t change. so i guess you can admit that the collaborators of yesterday can change too, no? then being against bashar...
4/ and you seem to see the future knowing who will replace bashar and how syria will become even worse!
5/ between two evils you got to chose the lesser one, in this case i cannot be with M8, but it doesn t mean i m with M14 because we know how irresponsible lebanese politicians are, working for themselves, never for the people...
29 September 2012, 20:26
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Hilarious you people, the guy was fighting the Syrians while the LF was killing soldiers. Aoun was in France while your ALLIES were kissing the feet of the Syrians. Did you all forget? And the best joke of it all, is that Aoun is a Syrian ally, why would he ally with a regime that was thrown out of Lebanon and is at its weaknest point? What does he gain? You guys are tool, allies with the people who sold Lebanon to Syria and now everyone forgets. You deserve what you have, you're not worthy of Lebanon.
29 September 2012, 20:37
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Here 's a politician not worth the powder it'll take to blow him up
29 September 2012, 21:57
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Around wants Christians to believe that siding with HA's brand of Shi3a is the only way to go. He and HA are panicking with the approach of the end of Bashar's regime. They are hoping against all hope that the wind will change direction. Pissing against the wind, as my grandma used to say, will get you all wet. Will Aoun ever listen? Doubtful, this man never learned when to stop hence he is doomed.
29 September 2012, 22:42
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Aoun represents the majority of the Christians in this country, and his fears are felt by the vast majority of christians in the region. The armed opposition in Aleppo is made of fanatics, hardened islamists. Geagea, when he says that the Arab Spring is a positive thing for the Christians, is not convincing for too many.
29 September 2012, 22:53
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he is not afraid: he wants you to be afraid to bring him your vote...so that is why he and M8 are spreading this fear to better manipulate you....and seems he succeeded!
29 September 2012, 23:21
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poor you... hezb is better working in the shadows by pulling the strings at the order of tehran... of course they won t islamize lebanon, it is not their plan but rather control the country indirectly like hypocrits they are... only idiots don t realize it yet, believing they resist for lebanon...
30 September 2012, 00:01
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yeah mr-i-know-it-all... that same old M8 arrogance i was talking about...
good for you by the way if you believe that hezbos is a democratic and peaceful party working for the sake of freedom and economical development in lebanon, you must be happy then! enjoy! i believe my answer means nothing to you as you are sure that hezbis are here for the country, what a fool am i! i don t see that! i must be blinded by the millions of dollars the wahabis give me each day!
please enlighten me and tell me how stupid i am for not seeing how great they are for the country!
30 September 2012, 00:03
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fear, non fear, manipulation.. but no answer to what I mentioned. there are jihadis and very conservative armed salafists roaming syria, committing crimes and trying to conquer power. aoun has been objective ponderate and not at all rushed in denouncing this. the vast majority of christians in the region do not live in denial, as someone on this forum.
30 September 2012, 00:20
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he really succeeded in making you think that we are on the verge of chaos and that only hezbis will save lebanon from the bad sunnis that are turning all into salafis and the christian traitors that don t see it!!... don t worry hezbis are already helping shabbihas to crush the bad syrian sunnis. so sleep tight
30 September 2012, 12:58
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thanks slash. but takfiris are a problem. al qaeda in the palestinian camps were a problem and we all supported the army in 2007 (i am sure you did so). now the FSA is in arsal, and what the christians from aleppo let me know, the katiba farouq is by no means nice to the christians, and they are supposed to be the more disciplined among the many miltias in syria. so why should not we worry when FSA is in Arsal? please, don't just say that I am manipulated. give your views.
