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Geagea for the Election of a President Even if Suleiman was Dropped |
2007-12-23 |
![]() He said stands by March 14 forces and U.S. President George Bush are "not identical. We want to elect Suleiman as a consensus president while Bush's address referred to other options." Bush had called for the election of a new head of state for Lebanon by simple majority, an option that the March 14 alliance is not resorting to in an effort to avert a violent confrontation with the Hizbullah-led opposition. Geagea urged Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun to "set aside all differences and let's sit and talk ... with the aim of putting an end to the ongoing crisis." He said Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri is "clever in marketing verbal stands, without delivering on them, in order not to elect Gen. Suleiman." Geagea accused the opposition of being a "follower of Syria for proposing a basket of conditions that are identical to what has been set by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem." |
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