Aoun Urges Suleiman, Salam to Respect Constitution: Neutral Govt. is Unconstitutional

1 hour after his press conference, only 3 comments by one person: this shows the lack of interest in anything this guy says :) he has lost all credibility and is not worth commenting on what he says.

“What does a neutral government even mean?” I am not a supporter of any party but honestly, is there such a thing. Where do you find that type of government?

So people should read the entire article and not one point but only one point matters.

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Aoun: I call on President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam to respect my constipation.

And that ladies and gentlemen is what we call a democracy!

But aoun seems to think of himself above all that, and that democracy means he has to approve it first, and then if he does, everyone else should or they are traitors. Otherwise its just a zionist plot

they never build any dams because NO politician can agree on that subject and each want wants to build it for his own electoral purposes...

remember before the civil war all the problems the chiites deputies had between themselves coz each one wanted to irrigate his land and not the other ones....

If the General could point to where in the constitution it says that a cabinet with neutral ministers is unconstitutional? Clearly he hasn't actually read the constitution, especially with the Orthodox Gathering Law. http://moulahazat.com/2013/01/27/a-closer-look-at-the-orthodox-gathering-law-part-i-why-its-unconstitutional/

Agreed.

But what dams has bassil built? Why are they not more publicised (and this is a serious question, not trying to be sarcastic)

march 14 blocking? march 8 was in power by themselves and in prior mixed cabinets, march 8 and berri are the ones who had the energy ministry! once again wrong in your facts. but once again what did he achieve? renting a boat that it took over a year to come to lebanon is an achievement?

flamer yes he made lots of progress in costs especially when he gave out all them phone cards to his supporters during last elections! and the fact that internet and telephone costs going down, that is not an accomplishment of a minister but an issues of economics as prices are going down all over the world!

that has been their strategy since at least 2005. to cripple all public and governmental institutions and to prolong it unless they got their own way, and when they can no longer get their own way, then they take to the streets with their weapons.

too complex for aoun to understand. and interesting how flamer acts all intelligent but wont agree that aoun is wrong on this point! word biased comes to my mind.

ok i answer you. dams have been proposed and planned for years. even during the term of lahoud "the crook", it was proposed to build the shabrouh dam and other dams. but the energy ministry has always been under the control of berri and march 8. they had been stealing millions out of it every year so why would they agree to any dam projects? where are these multiple dams that bassil built during his tenure? if he did build any during his tenure, when were they planned and approved?

i recall bassil mentioning the great work of the cabinet and his ministry during his tenure. he stated that a day or two after the cabinet resigned. he himself never made one mention of the dams!

I don't get it is it time to say BS and claim it's fact? Where in the constitution does it say it's illegal to have neautral government? A political government is a fude ridden government that can not function. Government should always be of technocrats people expert in their fields with no political affiliation if you want ANYTHING done honestly and transparently.

And if someone says there is no such thing as neautral or independant what do you call Baroud? There are many like him out there that are sick of the political bickering and foreign intervention expert in all ministerial positions with resumes IN the field out there that can do Lebanon MUCH more good than all this son-in-law of that son of another and brother of another.

Enough with all you idiots hating each other and dissing each other and think about the country you live in for once. Syria/Iran/France/Saudi Arabia/USA...etc won't give you citizenship because your allegiance is with them you are stuck with the country you are born in.

Put your stupidity and blind tunnel vision aside and work on bettering your country not for the few but for ALL.

anonymetesxasusa, i know that you are educated and a reasonable person from all of your posts on here. but what do you mean by what sort of an excuse is this? a minister cannot just start projects on his own without the cabinet voting on it. it is very simple in that during the last cabinet, the majority was march 8 and they voted on their projects, while in the previous cabinets, nothing could get agreed on and the projects wouldnt have passed! so now hariri family is behind the generator mafia? what has aoun done from 2005 to 2011 to curtail the generator mafia? all hariris know is building bridges, roads and real estates? but isnt that what lebanon was in dire need of after the civil war? isnt that the only thing that is booming in lebanon, the real estate? rafiq hariri had numerous projects for lebanon but none and i repeat that none were executed because of the obstacles placed by march 8 and syrians.

we make this sounds so easy in our comments while we do not realize what was occurring in the cabinet.

why isnt aoun addressing the nearly 200 employees that gabi layoon hired on the day that the cabinet resigned. these 200 employees are government employees and entitled to benefits. these 200 employees are all affiliated with fpm, baath, ssnp, berri and hizbullah. but the sad part is that aoun is good at marketing himself. i will give him that. and in marketing himself, he chose 2 ministries to speak highly of? what about the other ministries?

now lets speak of the energy ministry's website. it is an embarassment to use a country's website for political ends. look at his intro statement in which he attacks other politicians! look at the news article on it announcing that he won a slander lawsuit against charles ayoub. what does that have to do with the ministry's official web site? and then read the article regarding the dam. how it has been planned since the 1950s and how he even thanks president sulieman for also eing behind this dam... and it is extremely interesting how all of these projects are being started or announced after the resignation of the cabinet!

وقال باسيل "اننا اعتدنا في لبنان ان الناس التي لا تدفع هي التي تستفيد، ومؤسسة مياه بيروت وجبل لبنان هي المؤسسة الوحيدة التي لديها وفر مالي بسبب أن الجباية جيدة، بينما نجد أن باقي المؤسسات مفلسة بشكل كامل".

what has he done about ensuring that hizbullah areas, where people dont appreciate paying for their electrical bills, do actually pay? we havent heard anything about that!

but yes bassil has been energy minister since 2009. and it took him how many years to announce his achievements? and they all begun to be announced once the cabinet has resigned?

and lets not forget that when oil prices has went up years ago, it was comrade junblat who brought up the issue of dams and selling water to the gulf countries in return for cheaper oil. so should bassil be the only person to get credit?

but talk in generalities is easy without more details. here was bassil's plan in 2010. http://www.energyandwater.gov.lb/adminpages/page/DownloadPageFile.asp?PageFile_ID=94

he proposed that lebanon would have total installed capacity of 4,000 MW by 2014. how close are we to the 4,000 MW of installed capacity?

anonymetexasusa

from 2009 to 2013, bassil could have built several power plants that would supply long term electrical solutions and generate considerable amount of MW unlike the boats which produce too little of MW and are a temporary fix while the existing plants are renovated. so why havent we built the long term plants in 4 years and bypassed the boats?

do you have any doubt he will make a second 180 turn? once a sellout always a sellout. It's not a matter of if but a matter of when.

lolll

Le petit général est complètement déglingué.

And noone knows that FT and Myaw the roar is the same ***changing screen .Noooo

Sho ya Mon jeneral sheer sandet daher sho ra7 ye3mel bi safaret s3udiyi ma3abena wehabiyi wa salafiyi halla2 serto as7ab kkkkkkkkkkk

Ejetkon lawemer men Iran lwade3 mo7rej mablomkon heda terikh 3awenkon darbi 3alhefer wa darbi 3almsmar ma3 lwaef sahebkon bashura bi ekher eyyemo wennto serto metel holafa2kon metalbi wala galbi ya7aef 3arjal iran betso2kon bel rasan ento mashi adat bas ?bas adat rkhisa yaharam

this idiot belong in a mental hospital.

Aoun , it good to see people like " Banthepoof" & "M2 fingers"ie M 11, making such comments . It shows the difference between reality & people that are daydreaming . I like it , it tells me a big difference between idiots from intelligence . Now we can classify & distinguish such Ass...holes !!!!!! Aoun the General ! You are on par as Mcather or Nepoleon , keep at it screw these bastards of son of bitches ! You make them feel as traitors of Lebanon ! Long live the Lebanese and its people especially the Armed forces !!! Viva Aoun , Viva Lebanon !!!!!!!!

Mouallek for better exposure write in English. If French suites you better that's fine , but there are 99% out there that have English as their second language . I'm sure you are intelligent enough if you know French then you should be able to write in English, it's 2013 not 1945!! Bonjour..

The constitution does not specify that nominees for Ministerships must be Deputies or must not be Deputies of Parliament. Aoun seems to imply that a Council of Ministers chosen among neutral personalities, that is, non members of Parliament would be unconstitutional.
So why did he press for Gebran Bassil, his son-in-law to be a minister, when Bassil was not an elected Deputy? Or is standard for constitutional measures not the constitution, but Aoun's mind on Tuesdays when he speaks this babble?