Aoun Calls for Replacing Security Officials, Says FPM MPs Won't Resign
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Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Tuesday said the Constitutional Council “cannot but accept” the challenges filed against the extension of parliament's term, calling for the replacement of security officials over the dire security situation in Tripoli.
“We extensively discussed the challenge we have filed and the possible effects should it be accepted. We agreed that as is the case with any vacant seat, elections would have to take place within 60 days and the parliament would be dissolved,” Aoun said after the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc in Rabiyeh.
“As for those speaking of political vacuum, the caretaker cabinet will remain the executive authority and parliament would convene in 60 days and elections would take place, especially that all people have prepared themselves to take part in elections on June 16,” he added.
Aoun stressed that “the challenge cannot but be accepted.”
“Should it be rejected, we will review the Constitutional Council's justification and know the type of judges we have,” he went on to say.;
Asked whether the FPM's MPs would submit their resignations should the challenge be rejected, Aoun said: “We will not leave parliament and we will not abandon our mission if someone else committed a mistake. Do you want us to leave and scream outside the parliament? No, we won't do it.”
“The rotation of power and the respect of the people are the most important things and it would've been easier to endorse the 1960 law ... The rotation of power has been impeded since 1992,” he added.
The FPM and President Michel Suleiman have filed separate challenges against the extension of parliament's mandate.
The parliament on Friday voted to extend its own mandate for 17 months after the rival political parties failed to reach a new electoral law.
Turning to the security situation in the northern city of Tripoli, Aoun said: “It is strange that security deterioration always happens when there is a debate over whether to extend parliament's term or not."
“Tripoli's MPs are trying to acquit themselves although they were the ones who sponsored the gunmen, so do they really want the army to take decisive action? Let them be clear as things cannot be resolved through threats, intimidation and mutual accusations,” he added.
“Let no one tell me that Jabal Mohsen is attacking Tripoli, as they are besieged. Tripoli is being sabotaged and the slogans we've been hearing are not good at all. If Jabal Mohsen does not belong to Lebanon, let them withdraw its identity and make it part of Syria,” Aoun said of the latest clashes between Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh.
He accused “local forces and gunmen” of igniting the situation in Tripoli, slamming security agencies.
“We won't accept that intelligence agencies keep refraining from disclosing the information they have and they are obliged to tell the people who is shooting on whom. Things are not being addressed and we had already warned of all the things that are happening now,” Aoun added.
“The security officials must be changed and competent people must be appointed. To whom are the gunmen loyal? To MPs? Let each of them pull his group from the streets,” he said.
Earlier on Tuesday, Tripoli MP Mohammed Kabbara gave a 48-hour ultimatum for the state to control the situation in the northern city of Tripoli.
“The residents of the city will have to defend themselves if the battles continued,” Kabbara said after heading a meeting for the National Islamic Gathering.
A new wave of Syria-linked clashes between Sunni and Alawite residents of Tripoli has killed at least six people in less than 24 hours.
The latest confrontations come after a brief lull in the violence between the two sides, after a flare-up last month left 31 people dead and more than 200 wounded.
The city has so far witnessed around 17 rounds of fighting which intensified when the now more than two-year conflict erupted in Syria.
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04 June 2013, 17:10
Aoun: The rotation of power and the respect of the people are the most important things and it would've been easier to endorse the 1960 law. The rotation of power has been impeded since 1992.
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04 June 2013, 17:09
Aoun: We will not leave parliament and we will not abandon our mission if someone else committed a mistake. Do you want us to leave and scream outside the parliament? No, we won't do it.
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04 June 2013, 17:08
Aoun: The challenge cannot but be accepted and should it be rejected, we will review the Constitutional Council's justification and know the type of judges we have.
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04 June 2013, 17:06
Aoun: As for those speaking of political vacuum, the caretaker cabinet will remain the executive authority and parliament would convene in 60 days and elections would take place, especially that all people have prepared themselves to take part in elections on June 16.
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04 June 2013, 17:06
Aoun: We extensively discussed the challenge we have filed and the possible effects should it be accepted. We agreed that as is the case with any vacant seat, elections would have to take place within 60 days and the parliament would be dissolved.
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04 June 2013, 17:04
Aoun: The security officials must be changed and competent people must be appointed. To whom are the gunmen loyal? To MPs? Let each of them pull his group from the streets.
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04 June 2013, 17:04
Aoun: Local forces and gunmen are igniting the situation in Tripoli and we won't accept that intelligence agencies keep refraining from disclosing the information they have and they are obliged to tell the people who is shooting on whom. Things are not being addressed and we had already warned of all the things that are happening now.
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04 June 2013, 17:03
Aoun: Let no one tell me that Jabal Mohsen is attacking Tripoli, as they are besieged. Tripoli is being sabotaged and the slogans we've been hearing are not good at all. If Jabal Mohsen does not belong to Lebanon, let them withdraw its identity and make it part of Syria.
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04 June 2013, 17:02
Aoun: Tripoli's MPs are trying to acquit themselves although they were the ones who sponsored the gunmen, so do they really want the army to take decisive action? Let them be clear as things cannot be resolved through threats, intimidation and mutual accusations.
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04 June 2013, 17:01
Aoun: It is strange that security deterioration always happens when there is a debate over whether to extend parliament's term or not.
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04 June 2013, 17:01
Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun after weekly meeting of Change and Reform bloc in Rabiyeh: We condemn the assassination attempts against Sheikh Maher Hammoud and Sheikh Mustafa al-Breidi.
04 June 2013, 21:08
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How much is aoun paying you flamey? He's outsmarting for for little.... You're so cheap. A cheap sheep Jajajaja
04 June 2013, 21:26
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FT instead of trying to look smart in front of banima3oof why don t you try to tell him what is wrong in his posts? and prove that he writes neurotic things!
oh! i guess you cannot so that is why as usual you just post empty and childish posts attacking the writer rather than the content that your lack of brain prevents you from understanding...
seems you are angry to be outplayed and outsmarted as your post shows it!
05 June 2013, 11:47
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did you say Syrian puppet FT?isn't your master the biggest Syrian puppet ...
05 June 2013, 17:09
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Il name a few for you....rifi,merhebi,fatfat,hariri,daher,should i go on?
05 June 2013, 17:12
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Well gagea did the dirty on the christians by changing his mind at the 11th hour...so aoun roper doped him and stuff you wel go with 1960 law because under that gagea will have wait for hariri to maybe give him 2 seats...
04 June 2013, 17:08
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The security deterioration you mention is not because of the elections but because of Hizbollah's involvement in Syria. Stop lying to your stupid followers ! Unfortunately, they would believe that elephants fly if you told them so !
04 June 2013, 17:16
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Even if the MPs are sponsoring "gunmen", you are sponsoring an entire criminal and military organisation called Hezbollah ! they murder, steal, deal and smuggle the hell out of lebanon.
04 June 2013, 17:19
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If it were up to you, you would not only make Jabal Mohsen part of Syria, but the entire country. This is the will of the likes of Aoun, Hezbollah, Bashar and Iran ... and this is what the imbeciles that are the FPM followers fail to see because they are brainwashed day in and day out by your completely illogical and senseless arguments that a 5 year old child can deconstruct !
04 June 2013, 17:32
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Let him speak all he wants ! The problem isn't with Aoun ... the problem is with Aounies...
Aoun is a true god because he can feed so much bullshit to Aounies and manipulate their thoughts and opinion like if they were parrots.
I respect him infinitely for this. The same goes for Nasrallah who I actually enjoy listening to because he knows how to make a speech. A bullshit speech but a good one !
By the way, where have all the Aounies gone ? Can't find any aouni commenter here anymore ... did they wake up or can't come up with any more arguments or stupid statement repeating their leader's bullshit?
04 June 2013, 17:43
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Not M11, not M8 and not M14 ... all are losers as you know there cannot be a winner!
04 June 2013, 17:38
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I get the hate letters.... I don't see any love letters though ?
Did Aoun lose his sex appeal ?
God doesn't protect anyone, doesn't grant a divine victory, doesn't care for the likes of you or I. Hezbollah, Iran and Bashar are protecting Aoun but they are ungodly entities that are crumbling and so will Aoun !
04 June 2013, 17:45
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You ruffle my feathers :)
Aoun could not ruffle any feathers had god empowered him to !
04 June 2013, 18:05
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Hate & BS ? Aoun is spreading hate and BS and you are absorbing it all like candy !
04 June 2013, 17:56
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You might all hate GMA. But he is right. Jabal Mohsen is beseiged by a sea of Sunnis financed by mikati and hariri.
Since the sunnis do not want to take the HezbIran milicia head on, they attack the weaker link, the alaouites, who themselves are well armed courtesy of the criminal regime next door. Hence a conflict in tripoli.
The only problem is... the on/Off switch that mikati and hariri are playing with to activate the gunmen might get stuck to ON.
04 June 2013, 21:34
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so tell us where can we find any documents you seem to have to be soooo sure of yourselves? LOL or just pure aouni assumptions as usual?
04 June 2013, 23:29
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sure peace. pls see the link below. And for your info, I am not a Aouni, I see good and bad in both sides.
https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/specialreports/sects-and-the-city
05 June 2013, 00:06
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yes qatar and mikati, syria and hezbollah involved... but the article does not mention M14.....
05 June 2013, 08:00
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The article names mikati and says its sources are mustakbal mps. But u don't expect future MPs or NOW to accuse hariri! You have to extrapolate. I accuse both.
05 June 2013, 11:59
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oh! yes extrapolate.... with extrapolation you can say that hezbollah is a democratic party and elects its leader regularly!
04 June 2013, 17:58
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On the other hand, his insistance to carry on the elections NOW is suspicious. He probably thinks he gets some on the fence votes from Geagea because of the "treason" of Geagea.... Here, GMA is self serving.
04 June 2013, 18:04
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Roar. I am not judging who jumped ship, and if what Geagea did was right or not. This is a different topic.
I am just saying that Aoun is opportunistically trying to make the elections NOW because Geagea lost a lot in the christian street, and GMA wants to build on that to gain the votes.
04 June 2013, 19:16
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Here Roar and Ft are giving 2 different views.
I agree with FT's. Aoun, like any politician, wants to build on a weakness in the opposing camp, since Geagea tergiversated on the orthodox proposal, aoun is seizing the weakness. Anyone would do the same.
However, roar, I dont think Aoun was fair for the christians: Aoun was against the mustakbal/Lebanese forces hybrid proposal EVEN THOUGH THIS LAW IS BETTER FOR THE CHRISTIANS THAN THE 60s LAW. when the orthodox proposal failed, he prefered the 60s law to the hybrid, to not give geagea the credit of getting a few more christian seats. Here GMA was not fair.
As for the other groups waiting for syrian outcome. I agree.
04 June 2013, 21:35
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well if aounis are soooooooooo sure to win then any law would suit them no? LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
04 June 2013, 23:34
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FT. If it was just as bad as the 60s law, why didnt he accept it? why didnt he negotiate to change it a bit, taking in account the kataeb's issues, and get to a solution? since mustakbal and LF accepted it, and HA was ready to take whatever the christians wanted, he could have made the difference, lost 3 or 4 votes and got us a new parliament. This is where he was wrong.
04 June 2013, 18:06
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"Aoun: The security officials must be changed and competent people must be appointed. To whom are the gunmen loyal? To MPs? Let each of them pull his group from the streets."
Why doesnt Hezbollah pull their gunmen out of Lebanon streets and Syria ?
04 June 2013, 18:51
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@the_roar
I agree with you about Raymond Edde and Bashir Gemayel. Please refrain from insulting them and tarnishing their memory by including Aoun in the same category. A Bashir or Raymond Aoun definitely is NOT.
04 June 2013, 19:47
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God bless General Aoun for his staunch patriotism, defense of Lebanon's democracy, and opposition to February 14-sponsored terrorism.
04 June 2013, 21:30
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"May God protect you from the hyenas that await your speech to race on their computers to write hate letters lol."
it seems you rush up here to defend your orange lover and declare how hopelessly devoted you are to him!
so much loyalty can only be found among the canine race....
04 June 2013, 22:31
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" The rotation of power has been impeded since 1992," Aoun is still in search of the chair. With the failure of the MOU to supply GMA with the chair, he will continue to steer his bloc to meet his own dark desires. He has constantly ignored his Christian base to better serve his master. Bow down before the one you serve General!
05 June 2013, 06:28
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“the challenge cannot but be accepted.” Poor old Lunatic Aoun, keeps seeing that presidential chair move further and further way. Run pajama general, run.
05 June 2013, 16:37
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well this 'clown' as u say has actually these titles in his profile: General commander of the Lebanese army, Prime minister, Head of one of the biggest blocs in parliament with 10 ministers...lets compare the one's u follow: a false doctor that doesn't have not even a degree, the other a saudi puppet placed so they can buy this land...do u want me to cont...loool :)
