Mustaqbal to Miqati: Your Comments Tarnish Tripoli's Reputation, Serve Syrian Interests
Al-Mustaqbal bloc criticized on Tuesday Prime Minister Najib Miqati's comments on Tripoli's events, saying that his remarks are a “political scandal serving the Syrian regime”.
"They (Miqati's comments) suggest that the north is a hub for extremists and terrorists,” the bloc said in a released statement after the MPs' weekly meeting at the Center House.
The lawmakers accused the PM of tarnishing the image of Tripoli and its residents by “telling the international community that he is the one protecting society from Tripoli's fundamentalists”.
Miqati had said that if it weren't for his intervention and for calling upon the army forces to enter the northern city, Tripoli could have turned into an Islamist “Emirate”.
"We have repeatedly pushed for announcing Tripoli as an arms-free city but our calls were left unanswered,” the bloc said, blaming the government for “every once of blood shed and all the destruction in the north”.
"We also condemn the negligence towards the city as and despite the huge destruction it has been suffering, it hasn't received any aid,” it expressed.
Commenting on Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah's suggestion of forming an economic committee, the bloc said “he (Nasrallah) and the government's performance are the first to blame for this situation,”
The lawmakers said: “Nasrallah's proposal is a confession about the government's failure in solving national issues”, adding that an economic committee would disregard the role of constitutional institutions.
“The formation of a rescue government can help in reducing the effects of the economic crisis and in supervising the 2013 parliamentary elections,” the MPs suggested.
"Hizbullah went from being a resistance respected on a national and international level to becoming a party striving for power to serve regional interests and plans,” the statement expressed.
The bloc also discussed Syria's situation among other issues and commenting on the latest developments in the neighboring country, the statement said:
“We reject the Syrian regime's continuous atrocities against its people and lately against Palestinian refugees in the Yarmuk camp,” describing them to be worse than Israeli assaults.
The MPs added: “This proves that Assad's regime has completely lost its legitimacy”.
"Now the real authority is in the hands of the Syrian National Coalition that has been recognized as the representative of Syria's people by more than 130 countries, the members of the Arab League and several international organization,” added the statement.
More than 30 people were killed in a 24-hour period in the Palestinian refugee camp south of the Syrian capital Damascus amid fierce clashes between the army and rebels, Palestinian sources said.
As a result, hundreds of Palestinians fled the mounting violence in the camp and entered to Lebanon through the Masnaa border in the east, an Agence France Presse correspondent said.
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