Berri: We Won’t Allow Parliament Tensions to Spill Onto Streets
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During the fourth parliamentary debate session on the new government’s Policy Statement, Speaker Nabih Berri voiced alarm over the angry exchanges among some lawmakers.
Addressing MPs, Berri said: “The remarks we have been hearing highlight the fact that this country needs a real reconciliation and you are responsible about this reconciliation before the public opinion.”
“There are bets that the tensions in parliament will spillover onto the streets, and this is what we will not allow,” Berri stressed.
The house speaker struggled all through the session to pacify the heated debate.
“Either you keep silent or I’ll expel you from the session,” Berri told MP Ali Hassan Khalil, his political advisor, who interrupted Mustaqbal bloc MP Nohad al-Mashnouq’s statement several times.
Addressing the members of his Development and Liberation bloc and Hizbullah’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc, Berri shouted: “I’m the one running this session, not you!”
Three days of parliamentary talks that began Tuesday will end on Thursday with a vote of confidence on Prime Minister Najib Miqati's government in which Hizbullah and its allies control the majority of seats.
The Hizbullah-led alliance also holds a slight majority in parliament.
The vote comes days after the U.N.-backed Special Tribunal for Lebanon issued an indictment in the 2005 assassination of ex-PM Rafik Hariri, implicating four Hizbullah operatives in the murder.
06 July 2011, 22:39
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Addressing the members of his Development and Liberation bloc and Hizbullah’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc, Berri shouted: “I’m the one running this session, not you!
we all know who is running the show...
06 July 2011, 22:53
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forming this kind of gvmt is already spilling.
what u heard ya nabayh in the parliamentary show, is 10 pct of the street,don't be so confident about the "calm" street,the storm is coming, and u ,hassan and ur khizmatci general are the dark clouds.
06 July 2011, 23:07
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What is the meaning of a vote of confidence in a cabinet and its policy statement if the statement, as submitted to Parliament has already been violated by a principle coalition partner, Hezbollah? Will Hezbollah drop its position with regard to the STL if Parliament votes to support the STL "in principle"?
"In principle"? What does that mean exactly? That the Mikati Cabinent supports the idea of pursuing justice with regard to political assassinations in Lebanon? Does it mean pursuing truth?
If Hezbollah defines justice and defines truth and under Hezbollah definitions, the STL has neither, then Mikati is turning his back on the STL while saying that he supports it. The veil is very thin and transparant and Nasrallah has already showed his butt, so there is no mystery and no need for the veil of cover any more.
Mikati is a cover of legitmacy for the illegitimacy of Hezbollah those who vote for the Mikati government are voting for the illigitimacy that created it.
06 July 2011, 23:29
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Mr Berri
They control the governemnt not you GET USED TO IT also Iran wants to save the Kadhafi regime what do you say to that? Lebanon first is where you should be...
06 July 2011, 23:55
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Deputies should stop arguing like dyouk, and get to work. All the talk about STL is useless bla bla bla. The STL will carry its course and the criminals will be judged in absentia, whatever anybody says. Hezbollah will not rest their weapons until the regional situation changes, whatever anybody says, and Hariri will keep on trying to buy people off, whatever anybody says. Why put all this energy on sterile discussions. We have a million other issues other than the STL. dachro the STL and focus on the important. For one thing, We are loosing 300 people a day on our highways, shouldnt we do something about it for example instead of useless bickering?
07 July 2011, 10:14
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Mr president knows very clear that the only people can make troubles and closes the roads and the airport are his people not others, so he must say that to his population.
07 July 2011, 10:51
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There are unconfirmed rumors that the political bureau and secretary general of Hizballa have decided to commit HARAKIRI ( self disembowelment ) for the sake of keeping the security & stability of their dear country Lebanon as the ultimate sacrifice from devout citizens....
