Bassil rejects 'corrupt president, corrupt PM and corrupt central bank governor'
Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Saturday accused political rivals of seeking to elect a "corrupt" president and to appoint a "corrupt PM and a corrupt central bank governor."
"Let no one threaten us with chaos or sanctions; these threats have become old. Let no one threaten us with vacuum or in the government and parliament," Bassil said during an FPM ceremony.
"We either choose the president with our own will or no one can impose him on us. A president who comes on the back of chaos is like a president who comes on the back of an Israeli tank," Bassil added.
"They want to carry out reform, but they want to meet and bring us a corrupt president, a corrupt PM and a corrupt central bank governor who is more corrupt than them and is being protected by them. They then get dismayed when we say no, but we will say no and a hundred nos," the FPM chief went on to say.
He also emphasized that "someone like (Central Bank chief) Riad Salameh will be held accountable."
"If someone like him isn't held accountable, the country will not rise," Bassil added.
Source: Naharnet
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