Aoun ‘Not in Mood’ to Sit at Same Table with Critics and Thieves
Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun informed Baabda palace that he rejected to attend the presidential Iftar on Thursday because he refuses to sit at the same table with “some thieves and public money squanderers,” As Safir daily reported.
Aoun also told the FPM’s OTV station that he didn’t attend the Iftar in Baabda because his “mood” does not allow him to sit with officials that criticized his proposal of a draft-law that would allow the energy ministry to raise a $1.2 billion fund to build plants to produce 700 megawatts of electricity.
The draft law faced a strong rejection from March 14 MPs and also drew skepticism from some of Aoun’s allies, including members of Walid Jumblat’s National Struggle Front bloc, during a parliamentary session on Wednesday.
Aoun said that he was frustrated because the dispute that erupted at the session didn’t come on the draft law itself but it exceeded to personal insults.
“It appeared as if we are going to put the $1.2 billion in our pockets,” the lawmaker told OTV, saying he was even shocked by the negligence of some cabinet ministers during the parliamentary session.
“We were expecting the electricity plan to receive consensus” in parliament, he said. “I was very much shocked by some of our ministers who didn’t insist that the plan could not be postponed.”
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