Report: Mustaqbal Seeking to Pressure Aoun to Abandon Presidential Race

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Al-Mustaqbal Movement would reportedly agree on the appointment of Commando Regiment chief Brig. Gen. Chamel Roukoz as army chief if Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun abandoned his presidential aspirations.

Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Wednesday that the adviser of al-Mustaqbal Movement chief Saad Hariri, Nader Hariri, informed the aide of Speaker Nabih Berri, Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, that the movement doesn’t reject the appointment of Roukoz, Aoun's son-in-law, on condition the FPM chief withdraws from the presidential race.

Sources close to the March 8 alliance told the newspaper that “al-Mustaqbal rejects to link the fate of the appointment of a new Internal Security Forces chief with the appointment of a new army commander.”

“Al-Mustaqbal doesn't object to the appointment of Roukoz in case Aoun discards his presidential ambitions.”

Conflicting reports emerged recently on whether Hariri agreed on the appointment of Roukoz as army chief.

The reports had said that Hariri informed Aoun about his consent on the appointment of Roukoz as military chief in return for the appointment of head of the Internal Security Force Information Branch Imad Othman as ISF chief.

Aoun has allegedly been seeking to receive political consensus on the appointment of Roukoz as army chief as part of a package for the appointment of other top security officers, but Aoun scrapped such reports.

Roukoz's tenure ends in October while the term of army commander Gen. Jean Qahwaji expires at the end of September.

The military posts in Lebanon are suffering as the result of the months-long presidential vacuum in light of the parliament's failure to elect a successor for Michel Suleiman whose tenure ended in May last year. The vacuum also threatens the ISF as chief Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Basbous is set to retire in June.

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Comments 11
Thumb EagleDawn 20 May 2015, 07:54

Al Akhbar is as credible as mowaten saying he is secular and lebanese.

Thumb ex-fpm 20 May 2015, 08:05

In that case, al akhbar is more credible:)

Missing humble 20 May 2015, 09:13

Caporal is a mareedman, he cannot understand that he can never be president.
No one around him dares telling him. On the contrary they feed him with more megalomaniac compliments.

Missing humble 20 May 2015, 09:41

Ebola has assassinated the will of wanting to live together.
They have divided the country like never before.
They are destroying the institutions and using a senile Caporal for achieving their own objectives.

Thumb -phoenix1 20 May 2015, 12:28

All this wasted time, and Aoun the claoun was aiming for this charade? Talk show host Adel Karam yesterday said that Aoun should have added 3 clauses for his conditions:

(5). That the candidate should be a Lebanese citizen for at least 80 or more.
(6). That the candidate should have been before a general in the Lebanese Army.
(7). That the candidate should love the color orange.

Wou rej3nah la nafsel 2ossah, Ana aw la a7ad.

I bet you, if we went for a popular vote, Aoun will lose it outright.

Thumb Mystic 20 May 2015, 12:42

Then let's make a popular vote and see if you are right.

Thumb -phoenix1 20 May 2015, 13:01

Mystic, akid, let's have that vote, wallahi you will see with your own eyes that your friend Aoun will lose. How can you win with all your M8 alliance, ma ya habib albi enta, you lost 2 elections and with a big margin, now you want to believe Aoun that he can win? Wa7yet li aghla shi 3andak yeh ya Mystic, I am one who made my position clear a couple of days ago, I said, let's take the plunge, but I also said, let the winer win and the loser shut up. Aoun will lose, and I beg that this vote be done, now!!

Thumb -phoenix1 20 May 2015, 13:05

By the way, I forgot to say, "Mr. Hariri, always and always, after you shake hands with Aoun, count your fingers, he is known to steal, 3al talei3 wou 3al nezel".

Thumb thepatriot 20 May 2015, 12:37

they surely all have the same iq!

Thumb -phoenix1 20 May 2015, 13:04

Jiddo, Patriot, whoever is doing this, creating all these aliases is a very low person, very very cheap. Yalla, life moves on.

Thumb thepatriot 20 May 2015, 15:01

could you guys please refrain from this filthy sectarianism please! Stop this ridiculous amalgam. All shiaa are not Hezbollah, even if all Hezbollah are Shiaa!