Aoun Blames Cabinet Delay on Salam's 'Violation of Constitution, Failure to Consult with Parliamentary Blocs'
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Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Tuesday lashed out at Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam, accusing him of “violating the constitution and the parliamentary tradition” and seeking to form a cabinet without consulting with the parliamentary blocs.
“It seems that the PM-designate is seeking to stir a clash with us, as if he has the right to form the cabinet without consulting with the parliamentary blocs. Let him form it with al-Nusra Front if he wants,” Aoun said after the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform bloc in Rabieh.
“This is unacceptable and we don't want to hear such things. We've been hearing about the rotation of portfolios ... and it is well-known that in the wake of the (previous) cabinet's resignation, the appetite of some parties for petroleum was teased and I don't want to address the issue in a personal manner because it is not only about the minister's success," added Aoun, referring to caretaker Energy and Water Minister Jebran Bassil, who is his son-in-law and a top FPM official.
Aoun noted that “if someone wanted to act in an upright and impartial manner, he would not have sought a rotation of portfolios in a cabinet that has only a 5-month term.”
“There are bad intentions and according to the constitution, the jurisdiction to form a new cabinet is not only limited to the PM-designate, because the cabinet represents the MPs and not him in person and we must choose our representatives,” he pointed out.
Aoun stressed that the norms must be respected, noting that the cabinet has not yet been formed “due to the conditions of the PM-designate, who is violating the constitution and the parliamentary tradition.”
The FPM leader underlined that the cabinet must reflect “both the outcome of parliamentary consultations and the will of the PM-designate and the president.”
“Negotiations are the only means to form a new cabinet or else you can 'dream' about having a new cabinet,” added Aoun.
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24 September 2013, 17:12
Aoun: The cabinet must reflect both the outcome of parliamentary consultations and the will of the PM-designate and the president. Negotiations are the only means to form a new cabinet or else you can "dream" about having a new cabinet.
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24 September 2013, 17:11
Aoun: There are illogical things and norms that must be respected. The cabinet has not yet been formed due to the conditions of the PM-designate, who is violating the constitution and the parliamentary tradition.
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24 September 2013, 17:10
Aoun: If someone wanted to act in an upright and impartial manner, he would not have sought a rotation of portfolios in a cabinet that has only a 5-month term. There are bad intentions and according to the constitution, the jurisdiction to form a new cabinet is not only limited to the PM-designate, because the cabinet represents the MPs and not him in person and we must choose our representatives.
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24 September 2013, 17:08
Aoun: We've been hearing about the rotation of portfolios and it is well-known that in the wake of the cabinet's resignation, the appetite of some parties for "petroleum" was teased and I don't want to address the issue in a personal manner because it is not only about the minister's success.
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24 September 2013, 17:07
Aoun: This is unacceptable and we don't want to hear such things.
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24 September 2013, 17:07
Aoun: It seems that the PM-designate is seeking to stir a clash with us, as if he has the right to form the cabinet without consulting with the parliamentary blocs. Let him form it with al-Nusra Front if he wants.
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24 September 2013, 17:06
Aoun: There Central Inspection Bureau is stalling on certain cases and it has failed to rule regarding several violations and crimes. This pushes us to say that we will "sell the CIB in an auction as junk."
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24 September 2013, 17:05
Aoun: A mass will be held today for the souls of Maalula's martyrs and in solidarity with the disaster-hit town, especially after the statement of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, which warned that the monastery and those in it are in danger.
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24 September 2013, 17:05
FPM leader MP Michel Aoun after the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform bloc: We have decided to hold a conclave for the bloc at the al-Qalaa Monastery on Dec. 11.
24 September 2013, 18:15
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Roar you are a bad joke, the Pajama general thru a fit when Assad Sr would not make him president, that is what Aoun war of libaration was all about. Aoun is a coward a deserter and now a paid stooge of the Axis.
24 September 2013, 18:19
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Go back to tending your sheep Mr roar and stop wasting your time proselytizing on behalf of your Lunatic Idol.
24 September 2013, 18:24
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It is a fact that Pajama boy ran away and deserted his solders and it is a fact that he can back and jumped in bed with Assad... no mater how you try to spin it :-)
24 September 2013, 19:24
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Same bull each week. "It's everybodys falult except ours". So immature.
24 September 2013, 19:31
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hey roar/flamethrower: You listen to SHN speeches? You get them live in Australia, translated into english or with subtitles. I recall you said you don't speak arabic.
24 September 2013, 20:02
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Oh sorry roar: I meant no offense. It is just I have a friend in the States who just like you does not read or write Arabic, yet he knows more about lebanese politics than I do. He recently asked me for some sites of SHN speeches translated into english or italian. Perhaps, you can help?
24 September 2013, 21:22
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Mr. Irrelevant is again WRONG. The constitution requires consultations with the parliamentary blocs in deliberations over the president's designation of a Prime Minister. With regard to the council of Ministers, dithering PM. Makes his line up, they develop a Ministerial statement setting the policy of the Government, the decree is consigned with the president of the republic! and then the nominees for the council of ministers along with the policy statement is submitted to parliament for a confirmation vote. A bloc may have a veto over the confirmation if it can get enough votes in parliament to vote the line up and policy statement down.
Aoun's statement that there must be pre-submittal consultations with the Parliamentry blocs is just WRONG.
24 September 2013, 21:27
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Section II, Article 64 paragraph 2 of the Lebanese Constitution:
2. He conducts the parliamentary consultations involved in forming a Cabinet. He signs, with the President, the Decree forming the Cabinet. The Cabinet must present its general statement or policy to the Chamber and gain its confidence within thirty days of the date of issuance of the Decree in which the Cabinet was formed. The Cabinet does not exercise its powers before it gains the Chamber's confidence nor after it has resigned or is considered resigned, except in the narrow senseof managing affairs.
3. He presents the Government's general policy statements before the Chamber of Deputies.
24 September 2013, 21:30
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Section I, Article 53, paragraph 2 of the Lebanese Constitution:
2. The President designates the Prime Minister in consultation with the President of the Chamber of Deputies based on parliamentary consultations which are binding and the content of which the President formally discloses to the Prime Minister.
24 September 2013, 21:31
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consultations with the parliament are BINDING on the President with regard to his nomination of a PM-Designate. The PM-Designate may consult with Parliament as he deliberates his Cabinet line up, but the only binding action that the Parliament has with regard to the cabinet is to vote it up or down in a vote of confidence after a decree has been submitted to it for a vote.
24 September 2013, 22:02
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Shoo Roar??? no answer to Beiruti. I just can;t believe naharnet let you spam your ignorance all day. All these quick replies with none sense. Your bag is empty buddy!
24 September 2013, 22:02
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Shoo Roar??? no answer to Beiruti. I just can;t believe naharnet let you spam your ignorance all day. All these quick replies with none sense. Your bag is empty buddy!
24 September 2013, 22:02
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Shoo Roar??? no answer to Beiruti. I just can;t believe naharnet let you spam your ignorance all day. All these quick replies with none sense. Your bag is empty buddy!
24 September 2013, 22:03
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Shoo Roar??? no answer to Beiruti. I just can;t believe naharnet let you spam your ignorance all day. All these quick replies with none sense. Your bag is empty buddy!
24 September 2013, 22:03
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Shoo Roar??? no answer to Beiruti. I just can;t believe naharnet let you spam your ignorance all day. All these quick replies with none sense. Your bag is empty buddy!
24 September 2013, 22:19
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thank you beiruti for bringing up the actual CONSTITUTION. El general likes talking about it, but doesn't seem to have read it.
25 September 2013, 01:12
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Only idiots think Nusra is worse than HezbIran.
Did Nusra kill Rafik Hariri?
Did Nusra kill Georges Hawi?
Did Nusra kill Wissam Eid and Wissam al Hassan?
Who killed Tueni, Kassir, Gemayel and dozens of others?
Face the facts: Syria, Iran and Hezbollah are partners, and they killed M14 politicians, journalists, and investigators.
Pierre Gemayel was killed for the benefit of Aoun and the party that covers up the crimes of the murderers. The quid pro quo was the agreement by FPM to deny the release of phone records to solve the crimes.
25 September 2013, 07:16
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Yet Aoun is bitter for not getting an invitation to Saudi and is accusing others of derailing his visit.
