Report: KSA asks Bassil not to ally with Hezbollah in elections
Saudi envoy Prince Yazid bin Farhan made a “notable” visit last week to Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil during his talks in Beirut, ad-Diyar newspaper said.
FPM sources told the daily that the meeting witnessed “a satisfactory atmosphere that can be capitalized on to repair the relation with the kingdom, especially amid Bassil’s advanced and clear stances on arms monopolization.”
Informed sources meanwhile said Bassil may visit the kingdom if he agrees to a Saudi demand for building “electoral alliances away from Hezbollah.”
“This would be very complicated for the FPM, which needs the Shiite votes in several regions, and things are still unsettled amid polarization between two currents within the political council -- the first calls for accepting the Saudi demand amid the transformations in the region, and the second believes that this political stance might have an electoral cost in several regions, knowing that Bassil would have the final say,” the sources added.
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