Jumblat Pledges Boosting Cabinet Productivity to Face ‘Aggressive Campaigns’
Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat said he agreed with Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah that social and economic affairs should be the cabinet’s top priorities.
Jumblat described his latest meeting with the Hizbullah chief as “excellent.”
Concerning the “aggressive campaign” that the cabinet has been subjected to by the March 14 forces since day one of its formation, the PSP leader told As Safir daily that “this was expected.”
“They have doubted us,” Jumblat said about local parties and foreign countries. He was quoted as saying that “the broad national coalition managed to achieve its goals through the formation of the cabinet.”
Jumblat stressed that “we will (the cabinet) confront this campaign quietly by boosting the productivity of the government.”
Meanwhile, the Druze leader said following talks with Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Wednesday that “the atmosphere is excellent despite the delay in forming the cabinet … Each of us has made sacrifices, each in his own way.”
Jumblat rejected to describe the new cabinet as “Syria’s government.”
“As to what happened with (Lebanese Democratic Party leader) Prince Talal Arslan, I say maybe it was a misunderstanding,” he said, describing Arslan’s verbal attack against Miqati as “inappropriate.”
Arslan announced his resignation of the government the day it was formed to protest his nomination as state minister. He was asking for a portfolio.
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