Jumblat Will Not Leave Parliamentary Majority
Contacts between Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat and the parliamentary majority have not been severed, stated a source from the majority to al-Joumhouriya newspaper in remarks published on Saturday.
It added however that contact between the Druze leader and Damascus has been severed for the time being.
Furthermore, it stressed that the positions of some National Struggle Front ministers and MPs “don’t necessarily reflect those of Jumblat.”
It revealed that the MP is currently focusing on the ongoing regional and international developments and ways to fortify the Lebanese internal scene against them.
Ministerial sources told the newspaper that the MP will not withdraw his ministers from the government or leave the parliamentary majority.
“It’s true that his position on Syria does not coincide with the rest of the majority, but he has not changed his stand on the resistance or the majority,” they noted.
In addition, sources closed to Jumblat said that the PSP leader supports keeping Najib Miqati as prime minister and for providing the appropriate conditions for keeping him in his role “due to a lack of alternatives at the moment.”
They voiced his fears of security repercussions taking place in Lebanon because of the developments in Syria, “especially since he believes that the crisis in Syria will take some time.”
He is also concerned that the crisis will take on a violent turn with the eruption of sectarian disputes, which will affect Lebanon.
“This is why he is keen on introducing political calm in Lebanon and ease the tensions order to keep Lebanon away from the Syrian events,” they stressed.
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