Sources: March 14 Walkout Means Rejection of Cabinet’s ‘Double Standards’
A decision by March 14 MPs to storm out of the parliament hall during the vote of confidence was taken last week and was an expression of discontent with the cabinet’s “double standards,” sources said Friday.
A Mustaqbal bloc source told al-Liwaa daily that the decision to walk out of parliament during Thursday's vote was taken at the large-scale meeting held at the Bristol hotel on Sunday.
The opposition MPs became more convinced to leave the hall when they did not get satisfied with Premier Najib Miqati’s response to their scathing attacks on the cabinet for not explicitly committing itself to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the source said.
Political sources also told An Nahar newspaper that the March 14 MPs’ move was aimed at sending a message of rejection to the government’s “double standards.”
There are two commitments in the cabinet, they said. Hizbullah clearly and honestly rejects the STL while Miqati has reiterated the “respect” for international resolutions and a decision to “follow the progress” of the court.
The clause of the tribunal in the policy statement states the following: "The government confirms that it will follow the progress of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which was set up in principle to see justice served in a manner that is neither politicized nor vengeful, and as long as it does not negatively affect Lebanon's stability and civil peace.”
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