Jumblat: Boycotting Legislative Session is 'Suicide'
Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat described the stances of Christian blocs that are rejecting to take part in a legislative session as a "suicide," An Nahar daily reported on Saturday.
“The stances of the Christian blocs is only a bidding and a message towards additional self suicide,” Jumblat told the daily in a phone conversation from Paris.
“It is a pity that some of them (political factions) have not learned from the lessons of the past, but we will not join them in this suicide,” he added.
Speaker Nabih Berri has called for a legislative session on the 12 and 13 of November to pass urgent laws and to prevent Lebanon from losing millions of dollars in grants and loans amid threats that the major Christian parties could boycott the session.
The Free Patriotic Movement and the Lebanese Forces are set to boycott the legislative sessions over the exclusion of the electoral law proposal and a citizenship draft law from the agenda.
The Kataeb Party also refuses to attend the legislative session amid the presidential vacuum, reiterating the need to hold the session primarily to elect a head of state.
Parliamentary sources supporting a parliament convention said on the expectation of a quorum that more than 85 lawmakers are expected to take part in the session, reflecting the concern to pass inevitable financial entitlements.
Later on Saturday, LF leader Samir Geagea addressed Jumblat via Twitter saying: “My friend Walid Jumblat, you are very kind but sometimes love can kill.”
Source: Naharnet
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