Berri wonders if Oct. 13 is 'official holiday', LF says to attend session
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has said that he does not intend to change the date of Thursday’s presidential election session, despite the Free Patriotic Movement’s objection and declared boycott.
Told that the October 13 anniversary is a sensitive topic for the FPM, Berri asked: “Is October 13 an official holiday? No, not as far as I know.”
“I only abide by the official holidays and nothing else,” Berri added, in remarks to al-Joumhouria newspaper.
Asked about the session’s quorum should other blocs decide to boycott it, the Speaker said: “Those who fail to attend the session would bear the responsibility for their stance, and should there be no quorum, I will set another date, no problem.”
Asked whether he intended to “target or provoke the FPM through setting a session on the anniversary of General (Michel) Aoun’s ouster by force from the Baabda Palace,” Berri smiled and said he wasn’t aware of the date.
Lebanese Forces bloc MP Ghayyath Yazbek meanwhile told Radio All of Lebanon that the LF bloc will take part in the session.
“With all due respect to the October 13 anniversary, this issue cannot be tackled in a political way,” Yazbek said.
Asked about the candidates of the Change bloc, Nassif Hitti, Ziad Baroud and Salah Honein, Yazbek described them as respectable figures but added that the LF does not believe that any of them can rescue Lebanon amid the current circumstances.
“The LF does not intend to nominate someone other than MP Michel Mouawad, because it sees in him all the patriotic and political characteristics, and he has all the professional capabilities and the sovereign expertise that push the LF to stand by him until the end,” Yazbek added.
11 October 2022, 16:16
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Maybe I'm being super optimistic but why should the election of a president for the Republic of Lebanon be like that in other countries.
The parliament convenes and THOSE PRESENT vote. The candidate with the lowest vote drops out. This goes on until there are only 2 candidates left and on this last vote the winner is the person who gains a majority of the votes of those present. No-one takes any notice in any part of this process to those members of parliament who can't be bothered to show up. Not present = no vote.
12 October 2022, 14:28
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Why shouldn't israel stop killing civilians and stop refusing to give justice to those they have opressed? Your little game here on naharnet is obvious. Thats one of the problems of you zionists, you think non-jews are stupid and can be played according to your wishes.
12 October 2022, 18:54
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Nobody thinks that non-Jews are stupid, I would possibly use the word obstinate. It is just a pity that the Palestinian leadership of Abu Mazan continues, after 5 years of refusals, to sit down with the Israeli side in order to come to some sort of agreement.
So it's all right in your eyes for the Palestinian terrorists to go around murdering Israeli civilians, but when Israel kills Palestinians shooting at them it is wrong.
Remember peace one attains with ones enemies not friends. Even countries that had never recognised each other have learned over the years that it is possible to sit down and talk one with the other, eg North and South Korea, East and West Germany, and of course all the Arab/Moslem States that now have full and friendly relations with Israel..
