How will PSP, Sunni and Change blocs vote?
Progressive Socialist Party chief Walid Jumblat had recently suggested the addition of ex-MP Salah Honein to the list of the proposed presidential candidates, but Free Patriotic Movement leader Jebran Bassil rejected the suggestion, seeing as Honein’s nomination would “provoke” Hezbollah, a media report said.
“Jumblat then agreed to (Jihad) Azour’s nomination and asked his bloc to vote for him, but he told the bloc’s members that he would await the decision of the Christian blocs,” al-Akhbar newspaper quoted informed sources as saying in remarks published Thursday.
“As for the Sunni MPs bloc, its members told those who contacted them from the three Christian blocs that they have decided to delay their stance until after a session is scheduled,” the sources said.
“They stressed that they will not be part of any camp and that they have aspects that concern them which might not make them unified in voting,” the sources added.
The Sunni MPs, however, emphasized that they “will not be part of any decision to block the quorum.”
As for the Change bloc, some of them are supporting Honein, some are backing Azour while some are “rejecting any candidate on whom the parties of the political establishment might agree, be them from Hezbollah or its rivals.”
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