Bassil says LF 'gave cover' for 'Christian loss' in new govt.

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Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Friday said the FPM cannot be in a new government that contains “privileged and non-privileged members.”

“We’re not clinging to power and it would be easier for us to go to the opposition, seeing as the same standards should apply to everyone or should not exist,” Bassil added at a press conference.

He attributed the delay in the government’s formation to “the vague standards in the formation process.”

“The PM-designate is imposing ministers on Christians and Sunnis, and what’s laughable is that the Christian party concerned (Lebanese Forces) has tried to depict its defeat and humiliation as a victory, whereas we have rejected that the same thing be practiced against us,” Bassil added.

“The LF’s approval gives cover and plunges Christians into a new tragedy,” the FPM chief went on to say.

“What’s uglier is that (LF chief Samir) Geagea has been promised, or he considered, that in return for this he would obtain our elimination from the equation,” Bassil charged.

He added: “This has been his habit of claiming victory through the elimination of others and this is what happened in 1990, when he accepted the Taif Agreement to provide cover to the attack on the Baabda Palace in order to get rid of Michel Aoun. This is what he also did regarding the president’s powers, only because Michel Aoun was practicing them.”

“Geagea gives cover to the loss of all Christians because he wants to eliminate a rival and this is being repeated today,” Bassil decried.

SourceNaharnet
Comments 1
Missing menasser 07 February 2025, 16:41

Bassil is truly finished. When his attacks on Hezbollah failed to give him a boost here he is turning on Lebanese Forces.