Jumblat hopes Iran-KSA deal leads to Lebanese president before June
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Tuesday described the Iranian-Saudi reconciliation agreement as a “major event,” hoping it will lead to a “settlement” in Lebanon and the “election of a president before June.”
“No camp can impose a provocation candidate on the other,” Jumblat said in an interview with Radio Voice of Lebanon (100.5-100.3), saying he prefers “a consensual president who has an economic aspect.”
As for the list of candidates that he raised with Speaker Nabih Berri, Jumblat said: “I had proposed three names -- General Joseph Aoun, Jihad Azour and Salah Honein -- and in the list I proposed to Speaker Berri I added the name of the candidate May Rihani.”
“The regional Saudi-Iranian consensus is a major event that surpasses my proposal and the proposal of Speaker Berri and (Hezbollah chief) Sayyed Hassan (Nasrallah),” Jumblat added, noting that the KSA-Iran deal will have a “huge impact on the region.”
“I don’t have any answer about the date of the president’s election, but let the (Saudi-Iranian) agreement be a motive for ending major analyses and attempting to reconcile viewpoints. Enough with the wars of elimination from all sides,” the PSP leader went on to say.
Noting that “boycotting dialogue would be a mistake,” Jumblat pointed out that dialogue would “contribute to a common nomination of a president, similarly to a Doha 2 scenario, but in Lebanon and not anywhere else.”
MTV meanwhile reported that Jumblat will travel to Kuwait on Wednesday for a political visit.
Source: Naharnet
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