Ex-MP says FPM-Hezbollah talks progressing, Azour still FPM candidate
Talks between the Free Patriotic Movement and Hezbollah are progressing calmly and rationally, a former FPM MP said.
Ex-lawmaker Amal Abou Zeid told Kuwaiti newspaper al-Anbaa, in remarks published Monday, that FPM chief Jebran Bassil and Hezbollah coordination and liaison official Wafiq Safa are calmly negotiating to find effective solutions not only to the presidential crisis, but also to a number of political, economic and security crises. The talks include the Trust Fund and the broad administrative and financial decentralization.
"What is being said in the media about the stumbling of the negotiations is not true," Abou Zeid said, adding that Hezbollah and the FPM have not yet discussed the name of a presidential candidate.
"Until now, former minister Jihad Azour is still the FPM's candidate," Abou Zeid said, denying that Bassil has turned against his intersection with the opposition on Azour.
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