Gemayel: Some Sides Pushing Lebanon to Suicide through ‘Emptying’ State Institutions

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The former chief of the Kataeb Party Amin Gemayel accused Hizbullah and its ally the Free Patriotic Movement of crippling the functioning of the government through their tactics, saying that the paralysis of the state ends with an initiative on their part, reported the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat on Sunday.

He told the daily: “Some sides are pushing the country towards suicide through their efforts to empty state institutions.”

“Given their insistence to obstruct government work, after imposing a vacuum in the presidency, the cabinet is practically resigned because it is no longer able to take any decision,” he remarked.

“We are passing through extraordinary circumstances that obligate ministers to perform their duties and to take extraordinary measures to revitalize state functioning,” Gemayel said.

“We are unfortunately witnessing excessive acts that are pushing us towards fatal vacuum,” he noted.

“Mistaken are those who believe that the vacuum will push us to change the current system,” he added.

“Such measures require the minimum amount of consensus that is completely missing over minor issues at the moment, so how can it be reached over major national ones?” he wondered to Asharq al-Awsat.

Lebanon has been without a president since May 2014 when the term of Michel Suleiman ended without the election of a successor.

Hizbullah’s Loyalty to the Resistance and MP Michel Aoun’s Change and Reform blocs have been boycotting presidential elections session over a dispute with other political parties on a compromise candidate.

The Change and Reform bloc’s insistence to address the government’s decision-making mechanism during cabinet sessions has led to the obstruction of its ability to address other pressing issues.

M.T.

Comments 4
Missing humble 02 August 2015, 10:30

Not "some sides" : only Ebola and Caporal sides.
Say it CLEARLY !!!

Thumb -phoenix1 02 August 2015, 16:03

Let's be perfectly blunt about our problems, the principle obstacle to our problems remain: Michel Aoun, Hassan Nasrallah and their mentors Iran and Syria. Michel Aoun wants the presidency and the army command for himself and for the realization of his dreams and for the protection of the interests of those who sponsor him, as the Lebanese saying goes, "Min akhad oummi sarr khali". Aoun is a man of no scruples, anyone who will make his dreams come true becomes his God. Hezbollah and its mentors want a puppet to protect and advance all their combined aims, thus, who better than a cheap shot like the claoun? Thankfully, Aoun will never realize One single dream of his, not one. He with his mentors have delayed us, but we shall prevail all the same, Claoun c'es fini.

Thumb justin 02 August 2015, 16:49

can you imagine what Lebanon would have been like if we didn't have aoun?
عون يتدخّل لتوريث باسيل رئاسة "التيار" ناشطون: ما جدوى المبادئ إذا تصرّفنا مثل غيرنا؟
http://newspaper.annahar.com/article/256279-عون-يتدخل-لتوريث-باسيل-رئاسة-التيار-ناشطون-ما-جدوى-المبادئ-إذا-تصرفنا-مثل-غيرنا

Missing humble 02 August 2015, 21:02

Very true.