Jumblat Hosts Dinner Banquet for Salam in Solidarity with Cabinet
Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat hosted a dinner banquet in honor of Prime Minister Tammam Salam, al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Friday.
Thursday's dinner banquet comes in light of Salam's decision to resume cabinet sessions after two-week break.
The daily said that Jumblat's initiative was described as a support to Salam and his technique in managing the crisis gripping the country.
Salam had suspend sessions over differences on the mechanism adopted by the government in the absence of head of state. President Michel Suleiman's term ended in May and lawmakers have failed since then to elect his successor.
Meanwhile, al-Akhbar newspaper reported that Hizbullah Liaison and Coordination Officer Wafiq Safa met on Thursday with Jumblat at his residence in Clemenceau.
Safa's visit, according to the daily, was to show Hizbullah's support to Jumblat after the threats issued against him by a journalist in al-Akhbar newspaper, Nahed Hattar.
The newspaper said that Jumblat held extensive contacts with political figures after Hattar's article to stress his right to take a legal action against the writer.
On Thursday night, Health Minister Wael Abou Faour, who is loyal to Jumblat, said that “Hizbullah denounced the statements against Jumblat,” hailing the party's stance.
The Druze chief had said that his party backs the Syrian revolution against the terrorist regime of President Bashar Assad after receiving threats from Hattar, who is Jordanian.
Hattar said in an article, published on Wednesday, the mainly Druze city of al-Swaida, which is located in southwestern Syria close to the Jordanian border, “would be safeguarded politically and militarily by breaking Walid Jumblat, the central connection in the plot.”
The PSP chief described the writer as one of the mouthpieces of the terrorist regime in Syria, which he said is taking the country towards destruction, denying that his party intervened in Syria's war.
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