PSP to Launch Initiative on Dialogue and National Salvation Cabinet
MP Walid Jumblat's Progressive Socialist Party and National Struggle Front cabinet ministers are planning to launch an initiative to lure back the March 14 opposition alliance to the national dialogue table, Minister Ghazi Aridi and NSF sources said.
Aridi told Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) that the PSP and NSF officials are drafting a memo that would be referred to all March 8 majority and opposition officials in an attempt to avert strife.
The NSF sources told An Nahar daily published on Sunday that the memo calls for the return to the national dialogue and end the March 14 boycott of parliamentary work.
The memo also suggests the formation of a national salvation government and agreement on a draft-electoral law that satisfies all factions in the country.
The sources said that preliminary meetings have been held in an attempt to reach the aspired results.
Lebanon plunged in a political crisis on Oct. 19 when Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch chief Wissam al-Hasan was assassinated.
March 14 boycotted the parliament after it blamed Prime Minister Najib Miqati's government for the killing and said it would not sit at the same dialogue table with Hizbullah.
The crisis came less than a year before the parliamentary elections.
The cabinet has approved a draft-law that divides Lebanon into 13 electoral districts and is based on proportional representation. But the parliament failed to approve it after it didn't receive the backing of all factions.
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