Bassil accuses Berri and opposition of collusion to keep vacuum
Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has lashed out at both Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and the Lebanese Forces-led opposition over the issue of the proposed dialogue.
“As if all parties have a tacit agreement on maintaining presidential vacuum so that each of them can implement his project,” Bassil said at an FPM ceremony in Batroun.
“After we reached with the French a format for consultations, which would have been limited in program and form, the parliament speaker called for a traditional dialogue in parliament with a vague format for successive sessions, as if there is an intention to waste the chance,” Bassil charged.
“The opposition meanwhile totally rejected dialogue, as if it is doing a favor for the proposer of the initiative in order to torpedo open (electoral) sessions,” the FPM chief added.
“I fear that we might have returned to the Tayyouneh alliance to waste the chance to elect a president,” Bassil went on to say.
He had accused Berri and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea of colluding together during the 2021 Tayyouneh clashes.
Source: Naharnet
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