Report: FPM calls for agreement on 'third' candidate
After Hezbollah and the Amal Movement officially nominated Suleiman Franjieh for the presidency, a senior Free Patriotic Movement official has called for agreeing on a so-called “third.”
In remarks to Annahar newspaper published Wednesday, the official called for proposing several names in an attempt to agree on “a candidate who represents an intersection among the majority of political forces, and if possible all forces.”
This candidate should “reassure everyone and be embraced by everyone and should perform his missions in order to exit the bad situation which we are suffering from economically and socially,” the FPM official added.
Noting that the FPM’s stance not to back Franjieh is a “principled stance,” the official stressed that his Movement will not change its position and that the exit from the current procrastination would be through “picking a figure from outside the alignments” and “abandoning” the current alignments.
08 March 2023, 16:46
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Agreed, by playing rock paper scissors; it is evident that their level of proficiency and integrity is subpar, as evidenced by their previous actions and behaviors. Their actions appear to indicate a lack of competence and an absence of adherence to ethical norms and principles.
08 March 2023, 17:43
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Unbelievable there are still FPM duped supporters with worst IQ than Basij. If Hizbollah or more accurately Iran's Foreign Legion is the invading force and Lebanon's enemy No 1, these FPM stooges are the path Hizb used to control Lebanon and transform it into an Iranian rocket base, while FPM got nothing except selfish benefits from presidency, crony appointments and inflated Bassil. Yes FPM and its stooges sold Lebanon for 30 pieces of silver and are equally responsible for facilitating occupation, treason, bankrupting a country, evaporating people lifetime savings, and causing misery and despair to millions of people. Just disgusting!
08 March 2023, 18:03
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Whoever is elected president does not matter. Frangieh, Moawad, Bassil, Azour, etc. will not change the sectarian divides and the distribution of power in the country.
Hezbollah and their ally Nabih Berri are by far the most powerful party in Lebanon BUT they have no idea what governance and prosperity are.
They know war and jihad (Hezbollah) and corruption and clientelism (Berri/Amal).
You give them any country, the richest in the world, say Dubai, and they will reduce it to rubble and misery.
Look at Iran and Iraq and Yemen and Syria...poverty, misery, and corruption are the norm...although they have highly educated and entrepreneurial populations.
But the parties that lead them are full of thugs, criminals and religious zealots that do not understand economics, business and governance.
Ultimately they drag the whole political class to become like them. Monsters and crooks. Just look at Lebanon's.
08 March 2023, 18:42
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The Associated Press
March 8, 2023 18.00h EET
France asks Lebanon to question 2 suspects in 1983 bombing
BEIRUT (AP) — French authorities have asked Lebanese prosecutors to detain two people suspected of involvement in a 1983 bombing in Beirut that killed dozens of French troops, Lebanese judicial officials said Wednesday.
It is highly unlikely that Lebanese authorities will detain the suspects nearly 40 years after the attacks. Neither has ever been taken into custody.
The request identified the two suspects as Yousef al-Khalil and Sanaa al-Khalil
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In 1997, Lebanese authorities ordered two men investigated for possible links to the suicide bombings of U.S. and French military bases in the first legal action in the case. The two men that police were ordered to investigate at the time were Hassan Ezzedine and Ali Atwi, believed to have been senior security officials of the powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah in the 1980s. The men were never detained.
