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Jumblatt urges quick elections , says void encourages terror
Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt warned on Monday that maintaining presidential void could encourage terror and urged the election of a new head of state as soon as possible. "Void doesn't benefit anybody. On the contrary it could form an environment friendly to terror and killing
so is it logical to maintain void pending a political agreement? This is illogical," Jumblatt wrote in an editorial to be published Tuesday by his party's weekly newspaper , al-Anbaa Jumblatt stressed that the Lebanese people are "required today, more than ever before, to confirm their allegiance to the state in line with the Taif accord that protects the formula of power sharing." That was an apparent rejection by the PSP leader to alleged plans by the Hezbollah-led opposition to topple the Taif accord which calls for sharing power equally between the Christians and the Muslims Jumblatt said Army Commander Gen. Michel Suleiman is "a consensus candidate he carried out significant efforts in safeguarding stability, combating terrorism at Nahr al-Bared, protecting the resistance and confronting Israel." Posted by: Fred 2007-12-19 |
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