Jumblat hits out at 'hardliner' Geagea
Former Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat has said that the decision to boycott the latest Maarab meeting was taken by the PSP and not by him personally.
“It wasn’t me. It was the PSP that took the decision not to go to Maarab. Then what’s the point of meeting people who do not recognize us?” Jumblat added, in an interview with the L'Orient-Le Jour newspaper.
Asked whether the PSP’s boycott was aimed at preventing Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea from crowning himself as the leader of the opposition, Jumblat said: “We have our centrist stance and we support the approach of compromises, whereas he is a hardliner. If he wants to prove himself as a leader of the opposition, let him do that without us. I don’t have any problem.”
“What Maarab does not want to admit is that Speaker Nabih Berri is the one tasked with negotiating with U.S. presidential envoy Amos Hochstein, and the truth is that Berri is negotiating over the possibility of separating the Lebanese file from the Gaza file,” Jumblat went on to say.
Source: Naharnet
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