Berri Accuses FPM and LF of Seeking Parliamentary Vacuum
Speaker Nabih Berri has noted that rejecting a “technical” extension of parliament's term is aimed at “paving the way for vacuum in parliament and consequently the other constitutional institutions.”
“If the reported stances are true, then their ploy has been exposed: they want vacuum,” al-Akhbar newspaper quoted Berri as saying in remarks published Wednesday, noting that the parliament speaker was dismayed by the stances that were voiced by the FPM on Tuesday.
MP Ibrahim Kanaan of the FPM had announced Tuesday after meeting Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea that the two parties reject a so-called technical extension of parliament's term in the absence of an agreement on a new electoral law.
Berri's visitors have quoted him as reminding that Lebanon has a parliamentary system and that any vacuum in parliament would delegitimize the other institutions seeing as they were either elected by parliament or are operating under the legislature's confidence.
Source: Agence France Presse
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