FPM says dialogue should be limited in agenda, time and place
The Free Patriotic Movement on Wednesday said it welcomes dialogue aimed at electing a new president on the condition that it be “limited to the issue of presidential elections and the president’s program and characteristics.”
It also should have “a specific timeframe and place” and should be “non-traditional,” the FPM’s political commission said in a statement issued after a periodic meeting.
The proposed dialogue should also be “without a chairman but rather a neutral management” and should take the form of “bilateral, tripartite and multi-party consultations between the heads of the parties, in order to reach the election of a reformist president based on an agreed-on reformist program,” the political commission added.
“Dialogue should be followed by an open-ended electoral session in which the agreed-on figure would be elected or there would be democratic competition between the proposed candidates,” the FPM went on to say.
Speaker Nabih Berri is expected to call for dialogue in early October.
Source: Naharnet
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