Aoun: I Will Reject Any Law besides Orthodox Proposal that Does Not Offer Fair Representation
Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun renewed on Tuesday his support for the Orthodox Gathering parliamentary electoral law.
He said after the Change and Reform bloc's weekly meeting: “I will reject any electoral draft law besides the Orthodox proposal that does not offer fair representation among the sects.”
“We will take the necessary measures to voice our opposition,” he added.
“To those saying that the Orthodox Gathering law is unconstitutional, constitutionality stipulates that no sect should be barred from governing the country,” Aoun noted.
“Is it constitutional that Christians were not represented during former Premier Fouad Saniora's government in 2005?” he wondered.
“To those committed to the Taef Accord, I would like MP Butros Harb to verify if a third of Christian seats at parliament were handed over in favor for Muslim ones” when the agreement was signed in 1989, continued Aoun.
Opposition lawmaker Harb was among the officials who signed the agreement in Saudi Arabia's city of Taef.
On the recent attack against Sports and Youth Minister Faisal Karami's convoy in the northern city of Tripoli on Friday, Aoun condemned the incident, accusing Islamists of being responsible for the spread of arms in the city.
He revealed that all offices of non-Muslim people were shut down in Tripoli “in a sign of their resignation to the force of arms.”
“All political and religious offices were closed in a sign of the weakness of the state and its inability to arrest the assailants even though it has identified them,” stressed the MP.
Friday's assault erupted after gunmen from the neighborhood of Bab al-Tabbaneh, demanding the release of Islamists held in Roumieh prison, clashed with Karami's bodyguards and then tossed a grenade at the convoy, setting a four-wheeler on fire.
The incident left 11 people, including four of his bodyguards, injured.
Commenting on the situation in Roumieh Prison, Aoun remarked: “Violations always take place at the jail due to the overcrowding.”
He held Interior Minister Marwan Charbel responsible for the situation at the prison, demanding that he reveal plans to resolve the problem there.
Source: Naharnet
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