Aoun: Our Enemies May Spend $3bn in 2013 to Isolate Us
Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Thursday warned his supporters that the opposition March 14 camp and its regional and international backers “might spend $3 billion” in the 2013 parliamentary elections to “isolate us.”
“Our enemies had more money than us but they failed to isolate us, then they spent a billion dollars to no avail, and nothing prevents them from spending three billions in 2013 to isolate us,” Aoun said at a ceremony to launch the O Card, which allows supporters to contribute financially to the FPM’s mouthpiece OTV.
“We must overcome the blockade and the increasing pressures,” Aoun told the FPMers.
“You all know that upon my return (from Paris in 2005) they tried to isolate me thinking that they would be able to drive us out of the political game, but we overcame the blockade,” he boasted.
Aoun also noted that he wants to “collect a million dollars from a million Lebanese, not a million dollars from a single Lebanese.”
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