Report: New Round of Mustaqbal-Hizbullah Dialogue to Address 'Facilitating' Presidential Polls
The Mustaqbal Movement and Hizbullah are scheduled to hold on Monday the eighth round of their dialogue that was kicked off between them in December, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.
Speaker Nabih Berri's sources told the daily that the talks will focus on the presidential elections “and how to help facilitate consensus over it in a manner that would fortify constitutional institutions.”
Berri meanwhile expressed his optimism that April “would carry positive factors that would help stage the elections.”
He based his optimism on “external factors that indicate a foreign will to push for serious efforts that would lead to an internal agreement that would fortify Lebanon's immunity against regional dangers,” reported An Nahar.
Lebanon has been without a president since May when the term of Michel Suleiman ended without the election of a successor.
Ongoing disputes between the rival March 8 and 14 camps over a compromise presidential candidate have thwarted the polls.
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