Report: Aoun's Visitors Warn of Dangerous Consequences on Lebanon if He is Not Elected President
Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun will “not wait forever” for the Mustaqbal Movement to agree to his nomination for the presidential elections, warned his visitors according to al-Liwaa newspaper on Saturday.
They cautioned: “Lebanon will enter a dangerous phase should the MP not be elected president.”
“Such as phase will eliminate all the accomplishments that have been achieved in the country and may be even bring about its ruin,” they added.
This warning came in light of a meeting on Tuesday between Mustaqbal Movement leader MP Saad Hariri and Foreign Minister and FPM official Jebran Bassil.
Bassil had stated that there can be “great salvation for Lebanon” should an agreement be reached with the movement.
“We will however remain in this poor state should we fail,” he remarked.
“No one knows what the future will hold in case we fail,” warned the minister.
Talks with Hariri covered other issued besides the presidential elections, he revealed.
Hariri and Bassil met in Paris on Tuesday.
They stressed the importance of avoiding vacuum in the presidency and holding the elections on time.
The constitutional deadline to elect a president started on March 25 and ends on May 25.
The first round of the elections was held on May 23, but neither of the two candidates, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea and Democratic Gathering MP Henri Helou, received the votes of 86 lawmakers that are necessary to emerge victorious.
The second round was set for Wednesday, but it failed to be staged due to a lack of quorum after the majority of March 8 alliance MPs, including those of the Change and Reform bloc and except those of Speaker Nabih Berri's Development and Liberation bloc, boycotted the elections.
M.T.
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