Sunni Leaders Yet to Agree on Post-Hariri Roadmap

A meeting held at the request of Prime Minister Najib Miqati and attended by Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Daryan and ex-PMs Fouad Saniora and Tammam Salam has failed to devise a “roadmap for filling the vacuum” created by ex-PM Saad Hariri’s withdrawal from politics, a media report said on Friday.

The conferees have not agreed on a plan, “especially that there is clear confusion as to how al-Mustaqbal Movement itself will approach the issue of the nominations of those who are loyal to it without being members of the Movement,” ad-Diyar newspaper said.

There is also uncertainty regarding the issue of voting, seeing as Mustaqbal has not asked its supporters to boycott the parliamentary elections nor to cast their votes, the daily added, noting that there is nothing clear as to “how these votes will be granted.”

The Sunni leaders and Mustaqbal, however, have “three red lines”: “no to backing Hizbullah’s candidates, no to backing the Free Patriotic Movement’s candidates and no to backing any of the Lebanese Forces’ candidates,” the newspaper said.