March 14 Debates whether Jumblat’s Latest Position Means he Has Left New Majority
Some sides in the March 14 forces have begun to wonder whether Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat’s latest position towards the new majority is a sign that he is leaving the camp, reported the daily An Nahar on Tuesday.
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea noted that Jumblat “is becoming fed up with the current situation in Lebanon and I don’t know whether that will force him to change his political position.”
He told MTV on Monday: “The other camp is incapable of building a state.”
PSP sources told the pan-Arab daily al-Hayat in remarks published on Tuesday that the party’s leaders still stand by Hizbullah and Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun because he supported the Resistance during the July 2006 war.
“This does not mean that the PSP will overlook Aoun’s role in obstructing the government formation process, stripping the prime minister-designate of the minimum amount of his privileges, and marginalizing the president’s role in the matter,” they stressed.
“Hizbullah has let Aoun go too far in obstructing the formation process,” they noted.
On Monday, Jumblat had slammed the new majority’s inability to form a new Cabinet, saying that it had “failed miserably” in the process.
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