Mustaqbal-Berri Tensions Persist as Beydoun Calls on Him to Resign
Tensions between the Mustaqbal movement, Speaker Nabih Berri, and their respective allies have persisted in the wake of the Mustaqbal daily’s publication of a WikiLeaks cable in which the speaker encouraged attacks against Hizbullah during the July 2006 war.
On this note, former minister Mohammed Abdul Hamid Beydoun called on Berri to resign seeing as the leaked U.S. Embassy cable revealed that he “says one thing and does the opposite on the exact same day.”
He told the daily An Nahar in remarks published on Saturday: “It appears that he is only committed to maintaining his position in power.”
The daily reported Mustaqbal circles as saying that the revelations of the WikiLeaks cable “had a major impact” among Hizbullah and AMAL, which forced them to divert attention away from Berri through launching a political campaign against the Mustaqbal movement.
Informed political sources told al-Liwaa daily on Saturday that contacts are underway among the highest ranking officials to ease the tensions between the speaker and the movement in an effort to prevent the tensions from spilling over onto the street.
They added that the recent meeting between President Michel Suleiman and the head of the Mustaqbal bloc MP Fouad Saniora may have likely addressed the ongoing dispute.
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