Gemayel Calls for Formation of Cabinet Capable of Overseeing Constitutional Deadlines
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Phalange Party leader MP Amin Gemayel called on Monday for the formation of a cabinet capable of confronting all the constitutional deadlines in the country and overseeing the upcoming presidential elections.
“Three upcoming deadlines will decide the fate of Lebanon,” Gemayel said after talks with Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi at Bkirki.
“It is essential for us to find common grounds and offer compromises as the country demands us to take courageous and responsible stances.”
Suleiman's tenure ends in May 2014.
The cabinet formation process was put on the front burner after Speaker Nabih Berri proposed a revised 8-8-8 government formula and President Michel Suleiman said he would form a so-called neutral cabinet if the political rivals don't agree on an all-embracing government within ten days.
Amid the Lebanese Forces' rejection of Hizbullah's participation in the cabinet, the March 14 camp has reportedly accepted the 8-8-8 formula in principle, but it is awaiting answers pertaining to the ministerial policy statement and the rotation of portfolios among political parties.
The 8-8-8 formula divides ministers equally between the centrists and March 14 and 8 alliances, in which each get eight ministers with “decisive ministers” for the March 14 and 8 coalitions.
Gemayel pointed out that talks with al-Rahi focused on coordinating the best ways to end the current situation in the country.
“All sides are being flexible regarding the cabinet formation process,” he said.
Asked about the start of the STL sessions last week in a suburb outside The Hague nine years after the huge Beirut blast that killed ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Gemayel expressed hope that the assassination of his son Pierre would be included in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
Pierre was assassinated in 2006 in broad daylight while passing through the Beirut neighborhood of Jdeideh.
20 January 2014, 15:13
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(1). We in Lebanon have an old saying, which I will not use as it is said, since it is truly racist, but I will shape it in a different way to make it sound more politically correct and nevertheless convey the message exactly as it should. If we have a girl that's getting too old without marriage (3ansa), we say better to marry her to anyone before she continues single. When that anyone comes, we see it as a salvage to what we would have perceived to be disastrous for the girl and the family, anyone but let she marry. In our current cabinet context, exactly the same principle was applied, anything but let there be a cabinet, even if it's made of the same old rubbish, but let's get that cabinet at last.
20 January 2014, 15:14
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(2). And the people of Lebanon will live to see another day with the same old trash, Sukleen maybe is now returning to work after the Al Nehmeh dump site has been reopened, and we can now breathe a sigh of relief after all that our trash is getting picked up again, but the real lethal, deadly and toxic trash of our politicians will be dumped on us again, as highly gangrenous as ever. Score: Politicians: 10 (ten), The People: 0, (nil).
20 January 2014, 15:56
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Why the movement in the "all encompassing government" file, all the sudden? Well everyone's interest is served by this. For Hariri, Gemayel and others who had rejected participation in a government with Hezbollah, it seems a quid pro quo has been struck with regard to the STL. If Hariri would participate in the fait accompli 888 government where Hezbollah would control all decisions, then Hezbollah would not obstruct the funding of the STL. Let them try Hezbollah's guys in abstentia.
20 January 2014, 15:58
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For Hezbollah, they will get a government that they can control, so as to legalize their theft in the ministries.
For Aoun, he can continue his theft in the ministries.
For the M14 they have some sort of a path toward relevancy which is tiny, but better than the current dead end that they occupy.
