Reports: Aoun intervenes to convince Aswad, Abu Zeid to be on same Jezzine list
President Michel Aoun has intervened to impose a “compulsory agreement” on Free Patriotic Movement parliamentary candidates Ziad Aswad and Amal Abu Ziad, obliging them to be on the same electoral list in the Jezzine-Sidon district, media reports said on Tuesday.
The FPM’s list was announced overnight, only hours from the midnight deadline for the submission of electoral lists to the Interior Ministry.
In addition to Aswad and Abu Zeid for the Maronite seats, the list comprises Salim Khoury for the Greek Catholic seat and Mohammed al-Qawwas and Ali al-Sheikh Ammar for the Sunni seats.
Abu Zeid had recently announced that he was withdrawing from the race due to his disputes with Aswad. And after having slammed Aswad without naming him earlier on Monday, Abu Zeid later announced that he was reversing his withdrawal decision “at the request and insistence of His Excellency the President and FPM chief MP Jebran Bassil.”
Abu Zeid also cited “intensive demands from my people, beloved ones and FPM comrades in the Jezzine region.”
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