A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
leader and presidential candidate
Samir Geagea... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ...
presented his political rival MP
Michel Aoun...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
with two suggestions in an attempt to end the impasse, calling on the Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
chief to either run against him for office or to meet and agree on a consensual nominee, media reports said on Thursday.
Al-Liwaa newspaper quoted a Maronite leader as saying that Geagea informed a delegation of the sect's institutions that he has two suggestions to Aoun.
"He said he can either meet with Aoun and agree together on a nominee other than the four top Maronite politicians, or that the FPM chief can run against him for office," the Maronite leader told the daily.
"And if Aoun wins (the presidential race), I will be the first person to congratulate him," Geagea said according to the same source.
Radio Voice of Leb (93.3) reported on Thursday that the Maronite institutions met with Aoun at his residence in al-Metn's Rabieh neighborhood.
They had met with Kataeb Party leader Amin Gemayel on Wednesday and are scheduled to hold talks with Marada Movement
the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war, currently Syrian toadies, but you never know when that could change...
head MP Suleiman Franjieh over the presidential vote.
Their talks will conclude with a meeting with Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi after he returns from his controversial visit to Jerusalem.
Lawmakers failed for the fifth time last week in electing a new head of state over differences between the rival March 8 and March 14 camps.
The March 14 alliance supports the LF chief for office, who managed to gather 48 votes in the first wound of votes.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Esquimeau village Jack was learning how to rub noses with Nootka's wife......
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 ...
have not yet announced their candidate and Aoun has repeatedly insisted that he will only take part in the presidential race if he was declared a consensual candidate, mainly by former Prime Minister Saad Hariri
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
's al-Mustaqbal
... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri...
bloc.