Change and Reform Lashes Out at March 14, Calls for 'Silencing Rogue Voices'
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The Change and Reform parliamentary bloc on Tuesday called for continuing the dialogues that are underway between a number of parties away from some “rogue voices,” noting the rival March 14 camp is trying to make up for its “losses” through the formation of a national council.
“Any remarks that take us backwards under various alibis are not beneficial and all rogue voices must be silenced,” the bloc said after its weekly meeting in Rabieh in a statement recited by former minister Salim Jreissati.
The bloc's call is an apparent jab at the March 14 forces, which on Saturday strongly criticized Iran and Hizbullah, accusing them of “seeking to prolong the presidential vacuum” and implicating Lebanon in the region's conflicts.
March 14 also declared the formation of a National Council comprising political parties, independents and civil society activists. The coalition's statement, however, did not mention the Change and Reform bloc or the Free Patriotic Movement.
But the bloc launched a vehement verbal attack on Tuesday, saying the March 14 forces “are establishing general secretariats and national councils in vain as if they are trying to resurrect the dead.”
It also called on the coalition to show “openness,” urging it to “revamp its boring rhetoric.”
“They cannot limit their losses through forming national councils over the ruins of general secretariats,” the bloc added, referring to March 14's National Council and General Secretariat.
Separately, Change and Reform said it insists on the so-called "legislation of necessity" to “serve the state's higher interests and approve the draft laws and legitimate financial bills, such as the Eurobonds and certainly the new wage scale.”
“The obstruction of the renaturalization law is purely political and Speaker Nabih Berri told us that he will put it on the agenda of the parliament's general assembly, and this law can be definitely labeled as necessary legislation,” the bloc noted.
As for the presidential crisis, the bloc underlined that it is not awaiting a “regional signal.”
“Confidence has been placed in (FPM chief) General (Michel) Aoun and his project aims to preserve the National Pact,” Change and Reform added.
The 1943 National Pact is an unwritten agreement that laid the foundation of Lebanon as a multi-confessional state.
The country has been without a president since Michel Suleiman's term ended on May 25, 2014. Political disputes and electoral rivalry between Aoun and Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea have prevented the election of a successor.
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17 March 2015, 18:39
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Change and Reform Lashes Out at March 14, Calls for 'Silencing Rogue Voices'
Since 2005 you have silenced many Lebanese voices through assassinations, is this a warning for resuming the practice?. Any voices raised in defense of an independent and sovereign Lebanon will expose your treason and sell out to Iran and Assad, hence you call them Rogue. Many so called leaders in Lebanon should be jailed and tried for treason.
17 March 2015, 18:43
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the only rogue voices are those of aoun and nassrallah and their iranian empire.
17 March 2015, 19:00
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Unfortunately for Lebanon, understanding & reconciliation between all parties is nothing more than a dream as long as people such as those in M14 continue taking orders from abroad.
What are those orders? disrupt anything that looks like being fruitful & bringing all Lebanese together.
How? it doesn't matter how, just do it.
17 March 2015, 19:09
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All parties decided to sit down & start dialogue in the best interest of Lebanon....Now lets see who wasn't able to continue in good faith & in fact started throwing insults just when things were going well?
how obvious has it become that M14 has no say in Lebanese affairs.
17 March 2015, 19:28
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To The Ror: if you still have supported An armed Militia that has control over thegovernment and you still covered them in Parliament and else where, both blocked a democratic president from being elected except "iran's loyal"..and staying stand still against giving anything to the state and without consideration to Lebanese intrests instead Islamic Republic, Syrian Regime's intrests..After all that how can you say good faith? Hipocracy day it seems.
17 March 2015, 20:17
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I donno about you folks but if I think that my opponent is foolishly wasting his time occupying it in useless and unproductive exercises, instead of whining and complaining about the futility of what he's doing, I will encourage him to continue with that behavior and break out the la-z-boy and popcorn.
17 March 2015, 20:20
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Damn, it's Tuesday already and these orange parrots must earn their living, so talk they must talk, well, if they don't the yellows will cut them off, then it will be the dole for them all, from their caporal claoun Aoun to the Ibin Al Mou3jeze Gebran to the rest of the carrot clan. By the way, has anyone an idea how much fortune Gerban and the caporal's daughters own in corporations now? How much money they're making? For a clan that wants to be seen as clean, nothing is clean in them, starting all the way from their brains. They steal like their owners, then they find ways to lie, the bigger the theft, of course, the bigger the lie and the fabrication. Thank God Tuesday is almost over.
17 March 2015, 23:17
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What's the purpose of the talks if Aoun is determined to prevent any election unless it is his???
18 March 2015, 02:06
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Yes, yes, FPM has the better of it claiming their strength in the seats they hold in a non-existent Parliament whose mandate has long expired and in the thin spirit of their 80 year old giddo whose frail body has nonetheless out lived his mind. Compared to that, M14's National Council is just so many political parties that have united under one umbrella to win the next Parliamentary election.
"Silence the rogue voices!!" HA!! So rich, I wonder if you could see Nasrallah's lips move as the FPM dummy mouthed the words to all who would criticize their Ammo Khameini. Ya Haram
