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Aoun: Jumblat Was Never Part of Parliamentary Majority
"We've always been at war with Eastasia"[An Nahar] Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... leader MP  Michel Aoun...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... slammed on Tuesday the National Struggle Front's boycott of Monday's parliamentary session, accusing its leader MP Walid Jumblat of only seeking to ensure his own interests. He said after the Change and Reform bloc's weekly meeting: "It seems that the MP was never part of the parliamentary majority." The National Struggle Front decided to adopt a negative position, which it did not justify, explained the FPM leader. Asked if the March 8 forces ... the opposition to the Mar. 14th movement, consisting of Hizbullah and its allies, so-called in commemoration of their Mar. 8th, 2006 demonstration of strength in Beirut ... still retains the parliamentary majority, Aoun responded: "We will see if we have the majority if Jumblat resigns from government." On Monday, March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... and National Struggle Front MPs boycotted a parliamentary session that was aimed at tackling the dispute over government extra-budgetary spending. Jumblat told As Safir newspaper Monday that his bloc's decision to boycott lies in its insistence on finding a political solution to the dispute. "This doesn't mean that we are no longer part of the ruling majority," he said about the March 8 forces. Posted by: Fred 2012-03-07 |
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