Report: Aoun's Street Action to Launch after Cabinet's Session Thursday
The street protests pledged by Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun will kick off “immediately” after Thursday's cabinet session, reported the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat on Sunday.
Leading sources from the movement told the daily: “We have not yet set the final date and time of the first popular protest.”
“We are seeking wide participation however,” they added.
“We are not concerned whether our allies join us or not,” they stressed.
“The battle we are waging is one for our existence and we will not back down from it,” the sources declared.
“From now on, we will deal with some of our allies according to the files being proposed,” they explained.
“We may be allies while tackling one issue and foes while dealing with another,” they clarified.
Aoun revealed plans to hold demonstrations in several districts and his son-in-law Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil vowed to take “partnership by force.”
“The Christians of the Orient are being eliminated by the sword and they want to eliminate us politically,” Aoun told his supporters in Rabieh on Saturday.
“This is why we started preparing for popular movements and demonstrations in the districts of Mount Lebanon, Baabda and Koura,” he said as the delegation from south Lebanon cheered.
Aoun, who heads the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc, has been recently hinting that his movement is preparing for protests to what he calls attempts by his rivals to end the role of Christians in Lebanon.
“We Christians are facing an existential threat because the foxes of Lebanese politics are usurping all the rights and posts of Christians,” he added.
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