Jumblat refuses to brush aside Christian rejection of Franjieh
Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat is still refusing to brush aside Christian forces’ rejection of Suleiman Franjieh’s presidential nomination, political sources said.
Jumblat is insisting on his stance for a “key consideration, which is that these blocs are essential partners in the Mount Lebanon Reconciliation” that was reached in the year 2000 between Druze and Christians, “and accordingly he does not want to endorse a settlement that would impose a president rejected by Christians, a move that might have major repercussions in Mount Lebanon,” the sources told al-Akhbar newspaper in remarks published Wednesday.
Moreover, “the Saudi stance on the French proposal has not been settled yet, which prevents Jumblat from joining any of the rival camps,” the sources added.
“Jumblat informed French officials of this stance during his latest visit to Paris in the presence of his son MP Taymour Jumblat, underscoring the dilemma of the opposing Christian stance, and he is still repeating the same stance to the officials who talk to him,” the sources went on to say.
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