Bassil from Chicago: We Must Resist and Topple Any Illegitimate Authority

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Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil has warned that “coexistence in Lebanon is threatened,” while noting that there is a duty to “resist and topple any illegitimate authority.”

“Despite of all that is happening we are still resilient, but coexistence in Lebanon is threatened and today we are facing a new test and challenge,” said Bassil during a meeting with Lebanese expats in the U.S. city of Chicago.

“We have taken a decision to accept the other, regardless of their sect or religion, but this acceptance needs the same level of acceptance from the other. Any mutual relation requires acceptance from both parties,” Bassil stressed.

“We must accept each other in development and we must all pay taxes or no one should pay. We must be equal and represented in parliament and we must accept each other in the government,” the FPM chief added.

“We have established national partnership in the country in order to live free, sovereign and with full rights. Some call it racism but we call it conformity to the National Pact,” Bassil went on to say.

The FPM, which has the biggest Christian bloc in parliament, has suspended its participation in cabinet sessions and national dialogue meetings over accusations that other parties in the country are not respecting the National Pact.

The 1943 National Pact is an unwritten agreement that set the foundations of modern Lebanon as a multi-confessional state based on Christian-Muslim partnership.

“We have a duty to resist and topple any illegitimate authority. This is how to be Lebanese who respect the National Pact. The essential rule for national partnership is accepting each other,” Bassil added.

“If you accept me I'll accept you and if you reject me I'll reject you,” he said.

“Our Lebanon is our National Pact and our Levantism is the triumph of our Arab causes through the principles of freedom, sovereignty, human's dignity, justice and equality,” Bassil added.

The FPM chief had recently warned that the country might be soon plunged into a “political system crisis” if the other parties do not heed the movement's demands regarding Muslim-Christian “partnership.” The FPM has also announced that it will resort to street protests to press for its demands.

Lebanon has been without a president since the term of Michel Suleiman ended in May 2014 and Hizbullah, FPM founder MP Michel Aoun's Change and Reform bloc and some of their allies have been boycotting the parliament's electoral sessions, stripping them of the needed quorum.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri, who is close to Saudi Arabia, launched an initiative in late 2015 to nominate Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh for the presidency but his proposal was met with reservations from the country's main Christian parties as well as Hizbullah.

The supporters of Aoun's presidential bid argue that he is more eligible than Franjieh to become president due to the size of his parliamentary bloc and his bigger influence in the Christian community.

Comments 8
Thumb Hayek.Feghali.Abdelatif 26 September 2016, 17:57

sub·ser·vi·ent: adjective, prepared to obey others unquestioningly

example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWjgln7EBU0

Thumb shab 26 September 2016, 19:52

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Thumb Bandoul 27 September 2016, 04:15

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Thumb Hayek.Feghali.Abdelatif 26 September 2016, 18:09

None conformity to the National Pact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmZn5BLfPHk

Thumb Hayek.Feghali.Abdelatif 26 September 2016, 18:10

This is how to be Lebanese who respect the National Pact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KH-iX9ZP6k

Thumb Elemental 26 September 2016, 22:38

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Thumb Bandoul 27 September 2016, 04:13

Priceless! Thx.

Thumb Bandoul 27 September 2016, 04:15

directed below @ no.comment, not above.