Berri: If We Fail, We’ll be Doomed in Next Parliamentary Elections
Speaker Nabih Berri urged officials to speed up the drafting of the policy statement so that the government can make important decisions, An Nahar newspaper reported on Wednesday.
“PM (Najib) Miqati’s cabinet will not avenge or carry out any vexatious actions, but this stance doesn’t mean we will keep silence over theft and abuses in the ministries and institutions, because everyone should be under the law,” Berri said.
Asked about the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and the indictment, he stressed that the issue will be solved when the cabinet reaches that point.
Concerning the possibility that March 14-led opposition MPs would boycott the vote of confidence session, the speaker said “if the opposition MPs boycott the session then this will give us the chance to shorten the discussions and wrap it up quickly.”
Berri told As Safir newspaper that March 14 forces refused to join the cabinet “after being offered to be represented by 10 ministers.” He said that if they (March 14 forces) had accepted the offer they would have “confused us.”
He stressed that the test the cabinet is passing through will be “fateful.”
“If we failed, this means we will be defeated in the next parliamentary elections,” he noted to the newspaper.
Meanwhile, al-Joumhouriya newspaper quoted the speaker as saying that the cabinet policy statement “will hold onto the triangle of the army, people and resistance and will be committed to the international legitimacy in its forefront U.N. (Security Council) resolution 1701.”
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