Makari: Nasrallah Has Shut the Door on Govt. Negotiations
Deputy Speaker MP Farid Makari noted that Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's recent speech reflects the party's ongoing efforts to obstruct the formation of a government, reported the daily An Nahar Friday.
He told the daily: “He shut the door on the negotiations to form a new cabinet through refusing to relinquish his camp's conditions.”
“He implied that any government besides one of national unity would be one of defiance,” he remarked.
“Nasrallah's claim that he opposes vacuum, while remaining committed to his conditions, will lead to a government vacuum or maintaining the current caretaker cabinet or the establishment of a government devoid of any effective power due to the blocking minority,” said the deputy speaker.
Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam's efforts to form a new government have been met with the March 8 camp's insistence to obtain veto power.
He had said that such a power would render the cabinet as inefficient.
Nasrallah had demanded in a speech on Thursday that the March 8 camp take part in the cabinet according to its parliamentary, not political, weight.
“Amid these circumstances, a cabinet of national interest and true partnership must be formed and we must not waste time in this issue,” he said.
Commenting on these demands, Salam's circles told An Nahar Friday that the request for the camp to be represented according to its parliamentary weight is a veiled demand for veto power.
“Salam is adamant in rejecting the blocking minority and he had informed the March 8 camp of this position,” they stressed.
They hoped that Nasrallah's remarks that he seeks the formation of a cabinet “as soon as possible” would be reflected in his actions by facilitating Salam's mission, they continued.
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