PSP: No Rally or Speeches on Kamal Jumblat’s Murder Anniversary
The Progressive Socialist Party announced that the 35th assassination anniversary of its founder Kamal Jumblat will not be held during a popular rally.
PSP’s media office said in a statement that the anniversary will be marked by placing a wreath at Jumblat’s grave in Mukhtara on Friday.
“There won’t be any speeches or popular and political rallies,” it said.
Jumblat, who officially founded the PSP in 1949, was assassinated on March 16, 1977.
But al-Liwaa daily said Wednesday that a rally will be held in Baakline and will include speeches by MPs Walid Jumblat and Marwan Hamadeh.
Walid Jumblat dissolved the Democratic Gathering in January this year after four lawmakers - Hamadeh, Henry Helou, Antoine Saad and Fouad al-Saad - decided not to back his candidate for the post of prime minister.
He then established the National Struggle Front, the name of his father’s bloc which was set up in 1960 to bring together a large number of nationalist deputies.
According to al-Liwaa, Jumblat will make a fiery speech against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad that is cracking down on protestors.
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