Political sources warned that the dispute over the file may be the beginning of division among 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 ...
-led government.
They stressed however that Hizbullah "will not allow the government to be toppled seeing as it represents its political base."
The party is therefore seeking to overcome the current crisis over the electricity file in a manner that would appease 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...
and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP
Walid WallyJumblat
... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling...
.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase...
informed sources told the Kuwaiti al-Anbaa newspaper in remarks published on Sunday that Jumblat's rejection of the electricity file is a political message to Aoun to halt his push for the adoption of proportional representation in the parliamentary elections electoral law.
They explained that the FPM leader is seeking to weaken Jumblat in his Chouf stronghold, which will alter the distribution of power in the Mount Leb region that has existed since the days of the Druze leader's father Kamal Jumblat.
Jumblat "will never abandon this historic equation that allowed for the representation of various sects" in the MP's parliamentary bloc, they added.
Should Aoun succeed, then the Druze leader will lose the Christian representation in the bloc, they noted.