Aoun Hopes All Sides Would Study Orthodox Gathering Proposals
Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun hoped on Tuesday that political parties would grant the Orthodox gathering proposals over the parliamentary electoral an opportunity because its suggestions could probably be adopted in the 2013 parliamentary elections.
He said after the Change and Reform bloc’s weekly meeting: “We are experiencing the reasons that prompted the gathering to make its proposals in the first place.”
“Everyone has the right to launch a discussion over the parliamentary electoral law and I don’t understand the disputes that have erupted over it,” he added.
“Why shouldn’t the Bkirki meeting agreement be discussed with other ideas?” he wondered.
Last week, a meeting of Maronite leaders at Bkirki reached an agreement to adopt the Orthodox gathering’s proposals over the electoral law.
The proposals called for each sect to elect its own MP on the basis of proportional representation.
On the Beirut MPs’ demands for the establishment of an arms-free Beirut, Aoun said: “What security incidents are they talking about? What assassinations are they referring to?”
“Did the government assume its responsibilities when former Industry Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel was assassinated in broad daylight in Jdeideh?” he asked.
“We want to know what crimes require the demand of the establishment of an arms-free city,” stressed the FPM leader.
On Monday, Beirut MPs demanded that Beirut be transformed into an arms-free city after the frequent armed clashes that have erupted in the city in recent years.
Addressing the Arab initiative to end the crisis in Syria, Aoun noted: “This is a step in the right direction towards achieving calm in the country.”
Source: Naharnet
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