Report: Hariri's Initiative Calls for Ending Presidential Vacuum, 'Fortifying' Taef Accord
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Mustaqbal Movement leader MP Saad Hariri will unveil his political initiative when “all conditions for its approval are available,” reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Monday.
It said that the initiative includes ending the presidential vacuum and fortifying the Taef Accord.
It also demands the start of a new political phase in Lebanon “aimed at creating national understandings that would emphasize stability and reactivate constitutional institutions away from attempts of obstruction.”
“Hariri will announce his proposal at the time he deems appropriate,” prominent Mustaqbal sources told al-Joumhouria.
The sources did not deny that differences exist between the Mustaqbal and Lebanese Forces over the initiative, particularly over movement leader MP Saad Hariri's potential nomination of Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh as president.
“These differences do not mean that ties between the two sides will be severed,” they explained.
“Contacts between them are ongoing as demonstrated by the recent visit of Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq to LF chief Samir Geagea in Maarab,” they continued.
Geagea is a presidential candidate alongside his rival Change and Reform bloc head MP Michel Aoun.
The sources added: “The Mustaqbal Movement has never shied away from backing Geagea and it had voted for him during the polls and its lawmakers have attended all electoral sessions, keeping in mind that the LF chief himself had declared that he is prepared to abandon his nomination if consensus is reached on another figure.”
Franjieh has emerged as a presidential candidate in recent weeks as part of a political settlement aimed at ending the vacuum in the country's top post that started in May 2014 with the end of President Michel Suleiman's term and the failure of the political blocs to elect a successor.
Several officials have voiced their indirect objection to Franjieh's nomination.
Rumors of a rift between the Mustaqbal Movement and LF emerged in the wake of Hariri's nomination of Franjieh seeing as Geagea is a presidential candidate himself.
07 December 2015, 09:03
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"It also demands the start of a new political phase in Lebanon “aimed at creating national understandings that would emphasize stability and reactivate constitutional institutions away from attempts of obstruction.”
Dream on Mr. Hariri, don't forget we have the Iranian contingent in Lebanon that abides by no laws, norms, accords except wilayat al faqih.
07 December 2015, 09:06
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Who is Hariri-KSA to appoint the Christian president of Lebanon. Only Iran and Nassrallah have the right to name the president who by far is the general of generals Michel Aoun. We don't want outside interference and instructions from abroad. Iran and General Aoun are the only 2 countries working for the interests of Christians, Shias, and Yazidis...... the rest pfffffft.
07 December 2015, 09:18
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The problem of Lebanon is not choosing between good and bad president, but choosing between bad and worse. In real democracy the people should elect and not the MP's , the latter are corrupt and puppets of foreign interests .
07 December 2015, 09:29
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As you most certainly know that your Saudi masters have decided to keep Lebanon without a President and to rule it as a fief. Therefore, on the behest of your masters you nominated the most naïve person in March 8 for presidency, who very stupidly believed that your nomination was serious and a golden opportunity worth of breaking ranks with his allies. Clearly, the aim of your nomination is to create a chasm in the ranks of March 8 movement.
Indeed, Mr Hariri you are nothing more than a serf in the service of your Saudi masters.
07 December 2015, 10:03
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Taef is finished it robbed the Shiites majority and gave too much to the Christian minority.
07 December 2015, 16:56
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how interesting the usual hezbollah up voting spammers agree that the cristhians got too much in taef which is what hassan said back in 1990. so they dispute aouninst's claims that taef was unfair and took away the cristhians right. the hezbollah up voting spammers think those rights really belong to the shi3as not the cristhians
07 December 2015, 10:46
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We are going to loose the M14 best coalition for Lebanon....what a shame!!!
07 December 2015, 19:46
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Poor, poor nation which just cannot elect its own officials without conferring with outsiders.
