Aoun Says No Need for Cabinet but Stops Short of Announcing Resignations
Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Friday questioned the need for what he described as an ineffective government but stopped short of announcing the resignation of the ministers representing him in the cabinet.
“The government existed because of compromises made by us. So what is the need for its existence if it failed to appoint security officials and failed to resolve the Syrian crisis?” Aoun asked at a press conference he held in Rabieh.
Aoun also criticized the government for being incapable of implementing electricity and water projects and several other plans.
“The government is not able to take decisions on time,” he said. “It is urgent for officials to understand that governance has rules.”
“Do we need a government which is failing to approve major decisions because it is evading to give rights to people?” he wondered.
Aoun stressed: “We will no longer allow for the violation of our rights and the Constitution.”
The Change and Reform bloc leader has rejected the extension of the mandates of the army and police chiefs, calling instead for the appointment of new high-ranking officials.
“The state has reached a stage of disintegration,” he said.
Aoun blamed the crisis on “the limitation of the presidential powers” and “the lack of participation by all the Lebanese factions” in the country's political life.
“Are we living in a society based on the mafia where all of the people’s rights are violated?” he said.
The solutions to the current problems come through the election of the president by the people, a presidential referendum and holding parliamentary elections based on a new and balanced electoral law before organizing the presidential polls, the FPM chief added.
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