النواب "يمددون الفراغ" حتى جلسة 10 كانون الاول وجعجع يدعو الى "محاسبة" من يعطل

since all our muppets politicians wait for the string to be pulled by their respective manipulator the only way out is the people
in civilized democratic countries when there is a blockage due to constitutional failure or political blockage of parliament they resort to the people by referendum
god bless democracy (power to the people )
and may democracy expand to all the arab world

For your info FT Dr. Jaja is the strongest, he has the biggest christian block in parliament, he doesn't changes his mind so often especially on beneficial subjects for the christians in leb in general such as orthodox law n lately the p. prolongation, plus ++ he is doctor not a fake General!

“The Change and Reform bloc is hindering the polls by forcing us to choose between a strong president or vacuum,” he added.

No one expected you to approve of a strong President, after all you agreed to sign the Taef which crippled the Presidents powers.

Fake is fake no matter how many coats you lay over it.
Be it a doctorrrr with no qual or a murderer allowed to run for Pres.

Who cares how many votes they might get! Let them do their job of comming down to vote first. The problem is beyond numbers and formalities. A clear systamatic will to obstruct and take thr parliament and the country hostage by hizEBola and the Lunatic General runaway.

people referendum!

Henri Helou was nominated by Walid Jumblat, Michel Aoun was nominated by Hassan Nasrallah. It seems the only truly independent Christian leader is the one who nominated himself and his allies then followed.

In every other country that has a Parliament, the Speaker dispatches a Sergeant at Arms to go and get the Members to the Chamber when a vote is called, rather than allow them to boycott called sessions of the Chamber.

The Lebanese Constitution further requires that the Electoral Session, once called, must remain in continual session until a President is elected, Article 74 and 75 of the Lebanese Constitution.

This idea of calling a session and allowing boycotts and then going to recess for another week or so is Berri acting in collaboration with Hezbollah and Aoun to further erode and deteriorate the state.

Where are the Lebanese People?? It is there country. Why are they not in the streets demanding action of their elected officials??

Everyone seems to have accepted as fact the de facto situation that the people or their elected representatives do not elect the Lebanese President. Rather it is the foreign patrons. The Christians have the US and France, the Sunni have KSA and the Shia have Iran. So it takes a collaboration between the US, KSA and Iran before an acceptable president is designated for election and that collaboration has not yet happened because the US-Iran nuclear talks are still ongoing.

It seems Lebanon is still in the mindset of an Ottoman province where we await the word of the Pasha before making public decisions. When will the country accept its own independence??

spelling: a lost art.

"Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea reiterated his accusation that the Change and Reform bloc was obstructing the polls."

it is not their fault: it is the fault of ALL the inefficient MPs paid to do nothing while the citizens suffer with the blessing of the lebanese people....

Accountability: Unfortunately, you are correct to this point. The US gives us nice words and speeches, but when it comes time to really lend a hand when the country is face to face with proxy armies that are armed by KSA or Iran, not much is forthcoming. We get old beat up equipment from the American junk pile.
Why?? Because the Israelis are afraid that if the weapons fall into the hands of Hezbollah they will be used against Israel. Well here's a news break . . . Hezbollah already has advanced weaponry courtesy of Iran. They don't need to raid the Lebanese Army stockpiles. Hezbollah has night vision goggles. The LAF does not. They have shoulder fired SAM missiles, the works. So this is a lame excuse not to fully support the LAF, but it is continually used. And the French are not much better.

@peace. I will go further. It is not only the fault of ALL of the MPs but also the fault of the Lebanese people who elected the MPs that they are not out in the streets protesting the inactivity of their duly elected officials.
Democracy is not only about holding an election, it is also about holding those elected accountable back to the people who elected them. Aoun has no right to deny to the people who voted for FPM not to perform his duty and to attend sessions of Parliament. Neither does any member of FPM, Hezbollah or AMAL or any of the other boycotting members of Parliament. What are the boycotting???

Geagea can complain every Wednesday after Aoun makes his Tuesday comments, but why doesn't Geagea get his people into the street to demand action?? That would be more effective than speech making.

They should attend all parliamentary sessions, who wins is secondary...

@peace, those MPs can do that to a handful, but they can't do that when the people come out in force as we have done in the past when we got fed up with the Syrian Occupation. This is a worse occupation. We have Parliament occupied by a bunch of pan handlers who will not take action for the people while they await the decision of their money patrons to tell them what to do.
They are not worthy of the people and it should be the people hurling insults at them rather than the other way around

Some people are here to entertain us with iranisn jokes, where going to parliament is for having fun with ayatolollah kissing hands... Peace lover, we are in deep trouble if we put ..their Ayatollah before Lebanon.

The Ones I elected were the first to attend ;)

That is so important and people in my area know whoto elect. Our area looks like heaven Iin comparison to other places where the culture "Hate of life as well as love of Death" Prevail.

Someone from the Hezbo-Aouniyeh group on this forum please explain something to me:
so Hezbollah announced Aoun is their candidate, and Aoun said he doesn't wanna discuss any other candidate, and they're still boycotting??? Please tell me why they don't go to Parliament to vote...

A) There's no point until they get Jumblatt
B) Hezbollah hasn't convinced Berri yet
C) Franjieh is threatening Aoun in secret meetings
D) Hezbollah really doesn't want a president
E) Aoun can't run against a murderer
F) They're awaiting the outcome of the nuclear talks between the P5+1 and Iran