Loyalty to Resistance: Priority for Presidential Vote, Mustaqbal Must Stop Complicating Crisis
Hizbullah's Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc noted Thursday that “the current priority is for ending the presidential vacuum,” as it called on al-Mustaqbal movement to “facilitate the proposed solutions.”
“The current priority is for ending the presidential vacuum and we support any initiative aimed at reviving the parliament's legislative role,” said the bloc in a statement issued after its weekly meeting.
“The pressing, extraordinary circumstances that the country is going through necessitate a careful approach that allows the current government to take the necessary measures to cater to the interests of the Lebanese people and state,” the bloc added.
But it noted that “consensus” must be preserved in the cabinet's sessions, calling on rival parties not to “take lightly the stances and political weights of the forces that should be partners in taking the decisions.”
Accordingly, Loyalty to Resistance called on al-Mustaqbal movement to “facilitate the proposed solutions” instead of “carrying on with the policy of escalation and complication, which will only prolong the crisis and worsen the situations.”
Lebanon has been without a president since Michel Suleiman's term ended on May 25, 2014. The presidential vacuum is increasingly paralyzing the work of the government and the parliament.
A dispute over the cabinet's decision-making mechanism has recently erupted between the Free Patriotic Movement, Hizbullah's main Christian ally, and Prime Minister Tammam Salam, who is close to al-Mustaqbal.
Y.R.
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