KnobbyBerri
Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet...
has stressed that National Struggle Front leader Walid Jumblat was still part of the March 8 parliamentary majority despite accusations that he had joined the March 14
Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys...
opposition.
In remarks to several newspapers published Wednesday, Berri said: "The March 14 team should be comforted. Walid Jumblat is still in the majority ... and still one of its leaders."
His remarks came after several parties said Jumblat, who is also the head of the Progressive Socialist Party, went back to support the March 14 coalition following a decision by his politicians to boycott last Monday's legislative session along with opposition MPs.
On Tuesday, Change and Reform bloc leader
Michel Aoun...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
said that Jumblat was never part of the parliamentary majority and accused him of only seeking to ensure his own interests.
Aoun's accusation along with criticism by other members of 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 ...
came despite assurances by Jumblat that his bloc's decision to boycott the session lied in its insistence on finding a political solution to a dispute on extra-budgetary spending.
"This doesn't mean that we are no longer part of the ruling majority," he was quoted as saying on Monday.