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| Berri rejects indirectly Government's constitutional amendment |
| 2007-12-25 |
| Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri indirectly rejected a constitutional amendment bill adopted by the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to facilitate the election of Army chief Gen. Michel Suleiman as the next president to replace Emile Lahoud whose term expired November 23. Berri's statement on the rejection of the bill was outlined by MP Ali Hassan Khalil, a member of the speaker's parliamentary bloc and AMAL Movement. Khalil, reading the statement to reporters at Berri's residence in Ein al-Tineh, said: "The Parliament would not break the constitutional rules by accepting an anti-constitutional move from an illegitimate government." Addressing the Siniora majority government, Khalil added: "Your bill has no constitutional value." |
| Posted by:Fred |