Bassil meets al Rahi over 'presidential priorities'
Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil met Tuesday with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi and handed him a copy of a "presidential priorities" paper that had been announced last week by the FPM leader.
Bassil said that he will contact the parliamentary blocs to discuss with them the presidential paper.
He urged the Patriarch and President Michel Aoun to call for a national dialogue over the presidential election.
According to the FPM's paper, the new president must "preserve national sovereignty, protect the border and the full rights, devise a defense strategy in which the state is the main authority, preserve and develop Lebanon’s ties with the world, and achieve a swift and safe repatriation of the displaced Syrians."
