FPM: Those Rejecting Aoun's Election are to Blame for Vacuum
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The Free Patriotic Movement has announced that a much-anticipated meeting between FPM chief MP Michel Aoun and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea will be held when the two parties decide to start discussing the presidential crisis in their ongoing dialogue.
“Dialogue with the LF has reached a political agreement through the document of principles and any coming session between the two parties will be limited to the issue of presidency,” MP Alain Aoun of the FPM announced in an interview with al-Liwaa newspaper to be published Monday.
FPM MP Ibrahim Kanaan and LF media officer Melhem Riachi had recently started meetings away from the media spotlight at the behest of Aoun and Geagea.
Both Geagea and Aoun have announced their candidacies for the presidency. Their rivalry, in addition to other issues, have left Baabda Palace vacant since President Michel Suleiman's six-year tenure ended in May last year.
The two parties are currently embarked on preparing a so-called declaration of intent paper consisting reportedly of 17 sections. This has been described as the first phase of dialogue.
The meeting between the two Christian leaders will occur in the second phase and will discuss an agreement over the presidential crisis, MP Alain Aoun said.
“This depends on the LF's stance and on the guarantees that will be offered by the FPM to dispel any concerns, and this is the roadmap for the second phase of dialogue,” Aoun added.
He noted, however, that the FPM's leader “is not to blame for the obstruction of the presidential vote and the blame falls on those who are rejecting his election as president.”
Turning to the issue of the cabinet crisis, Aoun declared that no one has the intention to paralyze the government.
“The mechanism must be based on the approval of ministerial blocs, not individual ministers,” Aoun said, adding that “Article 65 of the Constitution deals with normal circumstances, not extraordinary circumstances.”
Prime Minister Tammam Salam's 24-minister cabinet assumed presidential powers after Suleiman's departure but its meetings were suspended around two weeks ago due to a dispute over the signatures needed to issue decrees.
Decrees were being passed with the signatures of all 24 ministers but some cabinet members complained that the mechanism allowed some colleagues to practice an arbitrary veto power.
In this regard, Aoun noted that the government must try to be “productive” while taking into consideration that there is “an extraordinary situation resulting from the absence of a president.”
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01 March 2015, 16:56
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This rivalry between Aoun and Geagea is sclerosing the country. Maronites from the mountain should no longer be eligible to run for president because they are peasants in the soul and run the country like they would run a farm.
Christians from other sects should be chosen for president, or alternatively civilized maronites from big cities.
01 March 2015, 19:12
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Very disapointed by your comment lebanon–first.
Until the whole system is changed in lebanon, differentating between sects and where they come from geographically is not fair.
Not because you come from a city means you are more educated and smart from someone from the mountain.
Not because you have bad apples means all the apples are rotten.
01 March 2015, 20:09
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I hear you lebfrcan
But we are fed up with this rivalry. It has shaped lebanese politics for the past 25 years, and is based on an endless mafia feud like those of Ehden vs Zgharta.
I am not saying anyone is smarter, And I personally appreciate peasants and farmers. But only to deliver me farm products. not to run my country. There are exceptional lebanese people. Look at Riad Salameh. What if we had someone like him? Pourquoi on est obligés de se farcir Aoun et Geagea a toutes les sauces?
01 March 2015, 20:44
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Riad Salameh is a Maronite from a village called Kfardebian not a city.
He is a great man and will get my support.
Villages don't produce only milk and cheese, but also great men with caracter.
Khalil Gebran is from Bcharreh... and there are many more...
01 March 2015, 23:12
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Instead of excluding villagers, I would exclude all those who refuse to attend the Parlaimentary session to elect a President.
01 March 2015, 20:25
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Why limit the choice of presidency to the Christians?
If we are truly keen on national unity and moving Lebanon into a modern day country, then every lebanese should be allowed to be president, not just christians. Same goes to the PM and the Speaker of the house.
Realizing that this will never ever happen, without genetic mutation of this nation- The best solution moving on out forward is to divide up the country with decentralization power and little power to the central government.
01 March 2015, 23:10
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Precondition that with disarming HA and all other militants and making any outside loyalty a crime against the State ..... then we might agree.
01 March 2015, 17:47
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FPM: Those Rejecting Aoun's Election are to Blame for Vacuum
The statement says it all. It is either Aoun or vacuum. What happened to the constitution, to democracy, to accepting others point of view, accepting the fact that you may not be popular with everybody.....
01 March 2015, 18:03
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He is the best choice for u southern, alreaddy acting as in democratic islamic irannian republic; u know the wonderfull kind of democracy where revolutionary guards and a senile old guy chose who can present for elections...
Now let him chant some lobaika ya nosrollah....
01 March 2015, 20:28
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Indeed bc i donnot agree with ur choice i am at the order of uncle sam, or takfiri, or maybe ksa is sending me free oil coupons and of course zionist...
Well that's ur deduction and eventhough a retared simplistic one it stays a deduction.
But u supporting a fanatic millicia engaged in irak syria yemen under the command of a senile old guy in islamic republic of iran in a retarded battle betwwen hussein and omar, u, hezbollah, ansar allah, faylak badder... Only a shiite version of da3ech and co....that's a fact....
02 March 2015, 10:18
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Pajama Boy: Though I agree with your assessment overall, please don't lop all the Shiites together with Hizb. Remember that Hizb has never had a problem killing Shiites who disagree with their politics, but were ever-ready to embrace Sunnis and Christians who pledged their loyalty to Iran and Syria.
Hizb are a sub-sect of Shia all by themselves, like the Alawites; but they are not Shia per se.
01 March 2015, 18:21
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aoun and fpm are the destructors of Christian presence in Lebanon.
01 March 2015, 18:26
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Nothing new. All the talk with the LF is just a charade to get Aoun the presidency. His selfishness destroyed and will continue to destroy the Christians till the end of his days.
01 March 2015, 19:38
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"Those Rejecting Aoun's Election are to Blame for Vacuum"
These guys are jokers!!
No one is rejecting Aoun's election because he wasn't elected on the first place!
He actually never officially presented his candidacy!
Now let us suppose Aoun announces his candidacy and gives us a clear vision and program
Then, it is up to MP either to vote for him or not!
That is democracy!
FPM arguments are caractaristic of dictatorships
We do not want lebanon to be ruled by a leader that only empowers the members of his family in his party
That lebanon is over
01 March 2015, 21:23
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Geagea and Aoun do NOT represent Lebanon's electorates, including the silent majority.
For presidential elections to be fair, the process should be handed directly to the people, bypassing a dysfunctional outdated Parliament. That would be considered a first step for true democratic election.
01 March 2015, 22:23
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Ya Aoun, who is boycotting the elections so that there is a presidential vacuum, remind me?
01 March 2015, 22:36
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That is absurd.
You do not want a vacuum.....go to the parlement and elect a president.....
Who wins even by one vote will be the president.
Is this simple or hard for the lebanese brain to digest?
02 March 2015, 03:36
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it is the time to choose someone new, anoun and geagea are too old to be in government nd should be in elderly home. or on trips especially for old people who are in their golden years making peace before they meet their maker. pray for the Christians who are kidnapped to be free, we need peace in middle east not isis hates against humanity.
02 March 2015, 07:58
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He noted, however, that the FPM's leader “is not to blame for the obstruction of the presidential vote and the blame falls on those who are rejecting his election as president.”
- How could someone say such a thing with no shame?
02 March 2015, 14:52
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These people from the FPM who do suffer from dementia and other psychotic ailments can say whatever they want. Since their lunatic leader got into existence, he lived in a state of self-denial, in a self-contradictory state where what he says now he will deny within the next 10 seconds. So if the leader is a lunatic, should we expect his followers to be any better? Since day one, they've been blaming everyone but themselves about all the problems of mother earth let alone little Lebanon. Do as they please, say as they please, their old claoun of a leader will never be president, never. He wishes to make us wait? We shall wait, till he kicks the bucket, we shall wait but we shall not have a sick jester like him running the nation's highest authority.
02 March 2015, 12:58
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let the people vote for their president the only way to pull the rug for outside interferences and lackies for any country will not stand a chance in front of people will
god bless democracy
02 March 2015, 13:08
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To all who do not want as a president. Can you please tell us what is your criteria for Lebanese president and who does fit it better than Aoun? Like him or not. He will pass any criteria better than any one else.
02 March 2015, 14:46
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In other countries candidates simply file their names for election and whoever wins will win. Now here we have the stark choice between two ex-warlords, either Geagea or his arch-foe the lunatic remote-controlled rubber-stamper Aoun the claoun. Neither of these two men could exert any command of Lebanon, since both have a chequered past. If Geagea wins, part of Lebanon will be hostile to him and if the lunatic old man wins, even more will be against him. So why not have some new faces, for God's sake, faces that are different, not linked to war, to destruction, faces that belong to the new generation. Personally I am sick and tired of having to gape at these two old figures who cannot offer us anything new, or anything to do with HOPE. We Lebanese need a break from the old from the painful reminders of a past too dark too painful, thus Geagea and Aoun simply don't have it in them, the new generations does have it.
