Arslan: Jumblat Conspiring against Syria, Executing Foreign Agendas
Lebanese Democratic Party leader MP Talal Arslan has launched a fresh blistering attack on his Druze rival Walid Jumblat, accusing him of “conspiring against Syria and the Druze of Syria.”
“Jumblat is continuing his ploys against Syria and he is executing foreign agendas,” Arslan added in a TV interview.
He also alleged that Jumblat “went to Turkey and requested that the Druze be displaced from (Syria's) Idlib.”
A war of words has escalated between the two men in recent weeks against the backdrop of wrangling over the Druze share in the new government.
Jumblat is insisting on getting all three Druze seats for his Progressive Socialist Party, while Arslan – backed by President Michel Aoun and the Free Patriotic Movement – is demanding that he be granted one of the three seats.
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