MP Gemayel Urges Salam to Work for Vote Law, Protect Lebanon against Security Meltdown
Phalange MP Sami Gemayel urged Premier-designate Tammam Salam on Sunday to push for an agreement on an electoral draft-law, protect Lebanon's security and rebuild trust in Lebanon.
Salam should work on agreeing on an electoral draft-law that receives the backing of all the Lebanese, protect Lebanon from security deterioration locally and on its borders and work on rebuilding international trust in Lebanon, Gemayel said at his party's executive forum held at the Forum de Beyrouth.
The lawmaker wished Salam luck in forming the new cabinet “to salvage Lebanon at this difficult stage.”
Gemayel said Salam believes there is no partnership in Lebanon without all of the Lebanese.
The lawmaker promised his party members a revolution against the political performance of officials which he said was based on lies.
Turning to Hizbullah, he asked: “Is Hizbullah happy by seeing the proliferation of arms and the spread of extremism?”
Gemayel blamed the party's insistence not to deliver its arms to the state for the spread of weapons in Lebanese towns and cities.
“We want the state to revolt to preserve its security on its border. What is the role of the army? Where is the dignity of the official who sees border villages coming under fire?,” he wondered.
Mortars and shells from the Syrian side regularly crash in Lebanon, causing several casualties, though Lebanese security forces and the army have never fired back.
Gemayel also called for a revolution against the policies of axes. “It's been 40 years that we are paying the price of their wars,” he said.
“It's time for us to take a break to build our economy and politics,” said Gemayel, who also called for keeping Lebanon neutral.
“We no longer want to pay the price of the region's crises,” he stressed.
He asked Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah whether the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad was worth dying for.
Hizbullah, a staunch supporter of Assad, has in recent months buried a number of fighters killed in Syria, without publicly disclosing how the men were killed, or where.
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