Aoun: Suleiman, Miqati, Jumblat Pushing Country to Harmful Course
Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Tuesday accused President Michel Suleiman, Prime Minister Najib Miqati and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat of “practicing obstruction” and “pushing the country to a harmful course.”
“They deprived us of the majority that allows us to take decisions. Suleiman is obstructing the L.L.8,900 billion decree and saying there are obstacles,” said Aoun during an interview on his movement’s mouthpiece OTV.
“They have pushed the the country to a harmful course through their behavior over the financial issue and they creating a vacuum in state institutions by refusing to make appointments,” Aoun added.
He also accused them of “impeding the economic cycle, blocking appointments and attacking the army.”
“What has the army done to be attacked by Walid Jumblat?” Aoun wondered.
“I ask the president to tell me which article of the Constitution would he be violating if he signed the financial spending decree,” he added.
Aoun also accused Suleiman of rejecting dialogue and of being “intransigent.”
“He does not have anything (parliamentary and popular representation) and yet he wants his own share,” Aoun charged.
Asked about Miqati’s performance, Aoun said: “I knew that Miqati would disappoint me but I had to abide by the majority's decision” during the binding parliamentary consultations to name a premier following the collapse of Saad Hariri’s government.
Turning to the recent deadly clashes in Tripoli that left nine people dead and dozens wounded, Aoun said “the arrest of a suspect who is wanted by several international powers sparked the unrest in Tripoli.”
“I don't know why a party leader demanded his release,” he added, in reference to Jumblat.
“Maybe they gave the information to the General Security so that they don't implicate (head of the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau) Wissam al-Hassan in Tripoli,” Aoun said.
General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim on Tuesday confirmed media reports that the arrest of Salafist activist Shadi al-Mawlawi was coordinated with a Western security agency, noting that al-Qaida exists in Lebanon and hinting that Mawlawi is a Qaida member.
Mawlawi’s arrest on Saturday in the northern city of Tripoli by General Security agents had infuriated the city’s Islamists and sparked three days of deadly clashes between the rival neighborhoods of Jabal Mohsen and Bab al-Tabbaneh.
Aoun also stressed that “the presence of arms in Dahiyeh does not justify taking up arms in Tripoli.”
Source: Naharnet
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