Suleiman Rebukes March 14, but Opposition Warns him Not to Take Sides
President Michel Suleiman has blamed March 14 politicians over allegedly ending their support to him while the new opposition advised him to become neutral or face the consequences of its campaign against the new government.
An Nahar daily said Sunday that both sides have blamed each other through common friends. Suleiman believes that March 14 stopped supporting him when it decided to boycott the cabinet.
He allegedly believes that the coalition prevented some of its members to participate in Najib Miqati’s government to consolidate the centrist bloc that includes the ministers backed by Suleiman, Miqati and MP Walid Jumblat.
The president also reprimanded March 14 for launching an attack on the new cabinet before taking its official commemorative photo at Baabda’s doorsteps.
But the new opposition’s politicians told Suleiman through their common friends that the defense of the cabinet as ‘made in Lebanon’ should have been left for Miqati.
Last week, Suleiman said that the government was 100 percent Lebanese and was not formed through a Syrian green light.
The politicians confirmed that they would continue their campaign against the cabinet and mainly Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun and Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
They warned that Suleiman would suffer from the consequences of this campaign if he takes sides, An Nahar said, adding that the March 14 officials advised the president to become neutral.
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