Salam's Small, Homogeneous Cabinet to Put him on Collision Course with March 8
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Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam is seeking the quick formation of a small cabinet of around 16 members taking the Baabda Declaration as the policy statement, which will certainly put him at loggerheads with the Hizbullah-led March 8 alliance.
Informed sources told several local newspapers that Salam is determined to form the small government whose members are not candidates in the parliamentary elections.
The sources said Salam rejects giving portfolios to ministers with bad reputation or people with no experience in the public sector.
He agreed with President Michel Suleiman during a meeting they held at Baabda palace on Thursday that the presence of women in the new cabinet was necessary, they said.
Both Salam and Suleiman had a united stance in forming a small cabinet whose members should not be parliamentary candidates given that its main mission will be to supervise the elections, the sources added.
Among the names that are being considered for the new government are caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel, ex-Minister Jean Obeid, former Minister Ziad Baroud, Raed Sharafeddine, former MP Nasser Nasrallah, Bahij Abou Hamze, Nicolas Nahhas and Mohammed al-Mashnouq.
Salam, who has rejected granting any party a blocking third or veto power and wants a homogeneous government which can be productive, will put him in a collision course with March 8, whose main members – Hizbullah, Amal and the Free Patriotic Movement – have called for a national unity cabinet.
The alliance has also stressed the importance of commitment to “the People, Army, Resistance” Equation in the government's policy statement.
Salam was over the weekend tasked by Suleiman with forming the cabinet after he received the support of 124 out of 128 MPs in two days of binding consultations that the president held at Baabda palace.
12 April 2013, 08:17
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m8 will do what it can to block this cabinet for the sole reason that they prefer the current status quo so that elections are delayed for at least 2 years.
12 April 2013, 08:42
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The February 14 Saudi-Wahabi coalition will sabotage the cabinet formation to ensure they can hijack the finance ministry again and hide all the fraud, corruption, and embezzlement they were responsible for the last 20+ years.
No to Arabism! No to Wahabism! No to terrorism!
12 April 2013, 09:42
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The M8 Government already exposed, prosecuted and convicted all the corruptiuon and embezzlement throughout the last 2 years........... right Karim. So there is nothing left to expose now. If not why?
12 April 2013, 09:42
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The M8 Government already exposed, prosecuted and convicted all the corruptiuon and embezzlement throughout the last 2 years........... right Karim. So there is nothing left to expose now. If not why?
12 April 2013, 12:11
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Karim, why did your parents give you an arab name i wonder... since your so keen on not being called arab then why keep an arabic name? Change it :)
12 April 2013, 12:49
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but yes to farsi fascism, seriously, you leave such an opening to expose your hypocrisy that I don't know why you bother saying anything.
Anyhow, this last M8 dominated government by all means is the worst government in this country's history. Nothing was done and the economy and the reputation of this country is in the dumps. What happened to the fight against corruption--if you couldn't do it with your own people in power, what makes you think that they would do anything at all?
12 April 2013, 09:22
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Aoun : Monologue
Long est le temps et rude est la tâche
De concilier mon ego avec le patriarche
Et si j’y parviens, enfin, le patriarche aidant,
Je resterai toujours sur des charbons ardents.
La présidence ! Faut-il qu’elle m’échappe encore,
Que mes adversaires se liguent et se mettent d’accord
Pour me barrer la route et me faire la nique,
Refusant de subir un pouvoir hystérique.
Pardieu, il faut que je finisse par y parvenir,
Même s’il faut pour cela compromettre l’avenir,
Me vendre corps et âme aux suppôts de l’Iran
Et livrer le Liban à ses religieux tyrans.
Il faut bien que mon gendre, le virulent Bacille,
Ne puisse être traité d’idiot et d’imbécile
Et pour sauvegarder ses chances d’assurer à ma fille
L’opulence qu’elle désire pour elle et sa famille.
12 April 2013, 12:03
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Once Said Akl said ;
Asia bi noss el 3alam
wel shark el awsat bi noss asia
w lebnen bi noss el shark el awsat
wel bekaa bi noss lebnene
w zahleh bi noss el bekaa
w bayti bi noss za7leh
w ghorfti bi noss el bayt
w takhti bi noss el ghorfi
w ana bi noss el takht
fa2izan... ana bi noss el 3alam !
Saïd Akl was a mentor of Michel Aoun. I leave the conclusion to the readers.
12 April 2013, 09:59
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It's all under control!
Jumblat is going to Northern Ireland to find the answers for Lebanon ...
12 April 2013, 13:30
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I think my own way, and I tried reading Al Akhbar and figured out that it was only after an agenda. Furthurmore, someone should sue them and have them change their name to "Al-De3aya" because they are anything but news.
12 April 2013, 15:47
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samiam, actually our friend FlamingTurd spends most of his time in a more constructive and self gratifying manner on the web his buddy toufic's gayarab.com by Shiites for Shiites with moderators like Nawwaf Moussawi and Naiim Qassem. They debate among other subjects the debate of hamster vs ferret, ping pong balls suction, leather vs latex and will there ever be a cure for cooties, not that there's anything wrong with that.
12 April 2013, 23:35
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At least there is news here and yet you are still here,
complaining....
are you living out the movie Grumpy Old Men?
12 April 2013, 16:46
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Naharnet is not translating the article correctly. The translator is adding its own interpretation. In the arabic article, they give dates as to when the government names shall be suggested. In the english article they remove these dates and write about M8. This is bad journalism Naharnet.
12 April 2013, 23:59
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http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/79326-march-8-dismayed-by-leak-of-alleged-technocrat-cabinet-lineup
Hehehe
12 April 2013, 21:13
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M8 is on a collision Course with M8....just wait and see...they are so spiteful they hate each other as much as they hate M14...
12 April 2013, 22:14
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M8 gvt did nothing so far... insecurity on the rise as they know they will go unpunished, the country is regularly shelled by syria, economy is on the decline, prices are soaring and no control from the gvt, beirut is still being covered with concrete no actions from the gvt to stop it and to lead a real urbanization planning, electricity still the same, water still wasted, agriculture still poor despite a hezbi minister and so on....
funny how M8 propagandist try and make believe the contrary when the facts contradict them.....
