عون يرى أن النسبية هي "المدخل الى الحل": من قال أن الرئاسة قبل الانتخابات النيابية؟

Aoun: Who said that the president must be elected before the election of a new parliament?

haha you did!

Listen very carefully General Aoun has a brief but very important message he will say only once..

http://sendvid.com/2gnr7pjc

I miss wolf

To Whom It May Concern
I, the_roar, a well respected, heavily voted, liked, and admired shia poster with 57 accounts (3rd generation Australian) on naharnet hereby declare that until further notice I suspend my membership in this forum similar to what MP Emile Rahmeh ( who got the highest votes in the last elections ) did when he suspended his membership in the Lebanese Parliament in SOLIDARITY with the unlawful, unjustified, and oppressive decision by the administration of this forum to ban my fellow shia poster Flamethrower.
Let it be know to all that such practices by management contradict with the basic fundamentals of the Iranian constitution and free speech in North Korea.
I remain,
Signed
the_roar

Please do not insult the rat

M14 won the majority of MP's during the last Parliamentary elections in 2009. This Parliament, which was elected in 2009, is the Parliament that was stipulated by the Constitution to elect the next President.

Aoun and Hezbollah know that they cannot win the Presidency under the 2009 elected Parliament, which is why they have neglected to fulfill their constitutional duties to attend the voting sessions. It is also why they want to change the Parliament before voting for a President.

The problem for them is the Constitution does not allow for a new parliament before electing the President. And the constitution requires a 2/3 majority to approve any change in the electoral law.

So their only job now is to obstruct the presidency, obstruct the Parliament, and obstruct the Cabinet.

Bassil is the future president of Lebanon, Ladies and Gentlemen

This is wonderful to see. After the nuclear deal and the thawing of US and Iranian relations he was able to get a US visa and go on a well deserved vacation. I'm even more glad that he's able to go out in public in civilian clothe like that without his usual costume.

They're the same coin.

Cohen Ainu and Bassil stop buying cloth at a children's store, I might consider them for a presidency. Until then go home (Iran) you unless trader.

Norma.jean
Your comments are intelligent and describe the real situation of Houthis who have gone back to stone age and want to take others with them....Ba3ed Na2is...

Before the start of this national dialogue mr Sami Gemayyel insisted on the presidency to be discussed first. Now after jumping into other issues mr Gemayyel says that he is sensing a trap.
MR GEMAYYEL,
Please be assured there is a trap. The only way to avoid it is to withdraw from such comedy.
Presidency was the first issue in the dialogue. It should be solved before cunningly passing to different ones.
If approved the new electoral law will be the base. With new electoral law or without, elections cannot be fair amid this chaos.
Presidency first full stop.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves

Art. 74 of the Lebanese Constitution:
"If the presidency becomes vacant because of the death of the President, or his resignation, or any other reason, the Chamber convenes immediately by law to elect his successor, and if the presidency happened to be vacant, while the Chamber of Deputies is dissolved, the electoral bodies are summoned to convene without delay, and the Chamber is legally convened, immediately as soon as the elections have taken place."

Art. 75 of the Lebanese Constitution
"The Chamber convened to elect the President of the Republic, is considered an electoral body, not a legislative body, and must proceed immediately for the election of the Head of State without any discussion, or any other matter."

This is where in the Constitution it states that the Parliament cannot convene for any other purpose but for the election of a President when the office is vacant, as it is now and has been since May 2014.

The idea of changing the constitution so that Aoun can suffer an electoral defeat by the vote of the people themselves cannot be accomplished unless Parliament adopts a constitutional amendment, which it cannot do when the office of President is vacant, it can only operate as an electoral body and not as a legislative body.

And Mr. Berri, as Speaker who wants to have dialogue over the issue is himself violating the constitutional provision which provides that the Parliament MUST proceed to IMMEDIATELY elect a head of state WITHOUT ANY DISCUSSION. Mr. Berri further violates the constitution by not compelling those who are boycotting his call for an electoral session to appear and to vote.

Mr. Aoun, who holds himself out as the paradigm of law and order, accusing others of being criminals, is himself proposing to become president by unconstitutional means, probably because he fully realizes that under the present law and the present Parliament he cannot become elected President. In no civilized society does one have the power to stop the constitutional electoral process when it appears that they cannot not win. No where is that the rule, only in narcissistic Lebanon is this tolerated.

If we all were to stop commenting on Aoun, maybe then he would realize that we just don't care about him and his narcissistic thinking?