Report: FPM MPs warn Bassil over replacing Hezbollah with LF
Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil failed to prove that he has the upper hand in the FPM in yesterday’s meeting of the Strong Lebanon bloc, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Wednesday.
“He accompanied his father-in-law, ex-president Michel Aoun, to the meeting of the Strong Lebanon bloc in order to impose his plan which is based on agreeing with the rest of the parties on nominating ex-minister Jihad Azour, but a statement issued by the bloc after a relatively lengthy meeting came out empty of a public and outright nomination of Azour,” the daily said.
“This reflects the triumph of the viewpoint of the five MPs Elias Bou Saab, Alain Aoun, Ibrahim Kanaan, Simon Abi Ramia and Asaad Dergham, which says that wasting the alliance with Hezbollah and starting a relation with the Lebanese Forces would be dangerous, seeing as the result will be the loss of a strong ally and the failure to compete with LF leader Samir Geagea in the Christian arena,” al-Joumhouria added.
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