FPM Threatens to Boycott Cabinet over Military Officers Appointments
The Free Patriotic Movement warned on Wednesday of the ongoing clamping down on the activities of the party, threatening to boycott its political activity or resign from the cabinet.
“If they want to rule without the (Change and Reform) bloc then they have the green light,” sources close to the FPM said in comments published in al-Akhbar newspaper.
The sources slammed unnamed sides with waging a war on FPM chief Michel Aoun's bloc ministers by directly rejecting all their proposals.
“If they continue to ignore and smother the movement of the bloc then we are heading towards a serious dispute,” the sources told the daily.
The sources expressed Aoun's annoyance from the party's partners at the cabinet, stressing that the FPM leader will not “ignore” anymore the campaign against the party under the pretext of consensus.
Media reports had said that Aoun's main objective is to receive political consensus on the appointment of his son-in-law Commando Regiment chief Brig. Gen. Chamel Roukoz as army chief as part of a package for the appointment of other top security officers.
Roukoz's tenure ends in October 2015 while the term of army commander Gen. Jean Qahwaji expires at the end of September.
Despite the reports about his insistence to have his son-in-law as army chief, Aoun denied that he had made such a proposal.
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