Report: FPM calls for agreement on 'third' candidate
After Hezbollah and the Amal Movement officially nominated Suleiman Franjieh for the presidency, a senior Free Patriotic Movement official has called for agreeing on a so-called “third.”
In remarks to Annahar newspaper published Wednesday, the official called for proposing several names in an attempt to agree on “a candidate who represents an intersection among the majority of political forces, and if possible all forces.”
This candidate should “reassure everyone and be embraced by everyone and should perform his missions in order to exit the bad situation which we are suffering from economically and socially,” the FPM official added.
Noting that the FPM’s stance not to back Franjieh is a “principled stance,” the official stressed that his Movement will not change its position and that the exit from the current procrastination would be through “picking a figure from outside the alignments” and “abandoning” the current alignments.
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