Soaid Doesn’t Rule Out Hizbullah Effort to Resort to the Street to Nominate Karami
March 14 General-Secretariat Coordinator Fares Soaid stressed that the ruling coalition was the strongest in Lebanon and accused the March 8 alliance of seeking to bring in a new premier by the force of arms.
“We are still the strongest team because we hold onto the right of the Lebanese to decide their fate,” Soaid told pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat in remarks published Friday. “We reject attempts by an armed party to lay its hand on Lebanon.”
“It is clear that the other party will nominate (former PM) Omar Karami after MP Walid Jumblat announced that he would vote for the March 8 team” during the parliamentary consultations next week, he said.
“Meaning, they would bring in a prime minister under the force of arms,” Soaid told Asharq al-Awsat.
He didn’t rule out an attempt by Hizbullah to exert pressure to nominate Karami by resorting to the street before the consultations.
In remarks to Voice of Lebanon, the voice of dignity and freedom, radio station, Soaid said the postponement of parliamentary consultations from last Monday to January 24 paved way for “parties that own weapons to terrorize citizens.”
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