Report: LF Defends Right to Claim Defense and Interior Portfolios

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Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea will begin political contacts as soon as he returns to the country from a trip abroad, to follow up on the political mobility that spiked lately in an attempt to reach consensus on a head of state, as LF sources defend the party's right to claim ministerial portfolio including the defense and interior, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Friday.

Commenting on speculations that some refuse to assign the defense and interior ministries to the Lebanese Forces, an LF source said: “We will not accept this exclusion, because the LF is an essential component and has the right like all other political parties to handle any of the ministries without any veto.”

“Why do they have a problem with the Lebanese Forces in particular, and why are they afraid that we claim the ministries of defense and interior?” the source went on and asked.

“Does the Lebanese Forces have an armed organization? Or is it because we refuse armed organizations? This logic is totally unacceptable. The LF believes in the (state) institutions mainly in the defense and interior,” added the source on condition of anonymity.

Moreover, Change and Reform bloc sources defended the LF's right in that regard, they said: “the LF can claim any ministry they wish to. This is determined during the formation of the government when the portfolios are distributed.”

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Comments 7
Missing humble 30 September 2016, 08:52

Hakim: you are acting wrongly. Very wrongly. How can you ally with an agent? How can you beg for portfolios? How can you put political interests above the common good?
Anyway, after all I have left you and the FL, and I am not the only one.

Missing humble 30 September 2016, 09:08

Excerpt from "Now News":

So modest are Aoun’s political skills that he has advocated for Berri’s dream of amending Taif and renegotiating the current split between Christians and Muslims into one that spreads the state into three parts: One for the Christians, one for the Shia and one for the Sunnis. As my friend and colleague Michael Young once wrote: How does shrinking their quota in the state from half to one third, like Aoun has been advocating, serve Christian interests?

Missing humble 30 September 2016, 09:20

Caporal is ruining the future of the Christians.

Missing humble 30 September 2016, 09:51

Hakim: your ally is a traitor.

Thumb sophia_angle 30 September 2016, 09:52

God keeps el Hakim n GMA w basss :)

Thumb ex-fpm 30 September 2016, 15:05

he was a war criminal according to your likes a few months ago;)

Missing humble 30 September 2016, 16:07

Your not even Caporal has accepted the Mutelateh of Ebola ...which must please you enormously...!!!