Jumblat: Paralysis is No Longer Acceptable
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Progressive Socialist Party chief MP Walid Jumblat has said that his only concern was to keep the government functioning to take important decisions and avoid paralysis.
“My main concern is for the cabinet to continue its work to take the necessary decisions and open an extraordinary session for the parliament,” said Jumblat.
He told As Safir daily published on Monday that “it is no longer acceptable for the paralysis of state institutions, which is reflecting negatively on the citizens' interests, to continue.”
“It is their own business and right if some sides have an objection,” the lawmaker said.
The cabinet has been unable to function properly since MP Michel Aoun's Free Patriotic Movement threatened earlier this month that its ministers would boycott cabinet sessions if Prime Minister Tammam Salam did not place a decree on the appointment of high-ranking military and security officials at the top of the agenda.
The cabinet convened last week following a three-week suspension and the FPM's ministers attended. But it failed to make the appointments, prompting Aoun to warn that he is mobilizing his supporters for street action.
The cabinet is scheduled to convene again this Thursday.
The government crisis is coupled with a legislative deadlock. The parliament has been unable to convene over the boycott of several blocs.
G.K.
D.A.
06 July 2015, 08:10
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You are the number one contributor to the paralysis. You and your MPs won on the votes of M14 and now you play the tune of "independent" party.
07 July 2015, 04:21
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This is the first sign that the influence of the Assad Regime in Lebanon is in the wane and in the zero sum game that is Lebanese politics, the power shift has gone to Iran and its Lebanese proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah. So that Aoun is issuing threats which everyone must take seriously, not because of Aoun, but because of Hezbollah. This is the marriage of unfettered power with unfettered megalomania/ Schizophrenia.
It is the time for Berri to join forces with M14 to counter this Iranian move in Lebanon before they can't. Jumblatt, Berri, Aassad M14, the Kataeb and Franfieh too, everyone on deck to counter this Iranian move inside of Lebanon.
