Bassil Rebuffs 'Conditional' Election of a President
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Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil stressed on Tuesday that it is “unacceptable to set conditions in return for the election of a president.
“Setting conditions for the election of a president is what made Bkirki raise its voice, and we understand that,” Bassil said after a visit to Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rahi.
“We support a national accord which brings together Christian and Muslim nationals, be it their agreement over an electoral law or the election of a president. The president is the sole guarantor of the constitution and the Lebanese as a whole,” Bassil added.
The Minister also stressed the importance of national understanding and acknowledgment of one another.
“We can never reach agreement at the expense of marginalizing others. We currently experience a phase which aims to gather the Lebanese rather than take them apart,” he concluded.
Bassil's visit to Bkirki came in a show of support to Rahi and his comments over the weekend that criticized the “package deal” suggested by Nabih Berri.
Rahi on Sunday blasted calls for the “package deal” that precedes the election of a president, noting that any candidate who accepts it has no “dignity.”
His comments triggered a response on Berri's end who said that his suggestion is “more constitutional than any other suggestion.”
04 October 2016, 13:17
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“Setting conditions for the election of a president is what made Bkirki raise its voice, and we understand that,” Bassil said after a visit to Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rahi.
but appointing and imposing the president is fine by you.
04 October 2016, 18:26
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120v... You're the dog, and a complete idiot who obviously hasn't figured out a shred of Politics!
04 October 2016, 19:44
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Yeah dude, how can you impose someone for president not chosen by the majority you know like the senile coward did when he imposed Gebran Basil on the majority of FPM members. And I like it how the Shiite who keeps pretending to be Cristhian uses Jew and Zionist interchangeably just like he used to use Maronite and Zionist interchangeably not too long ago. Just the other day one of their constipated turbaned illiterates had a blonde moment when he publicly reverted to the dated "Marouniya al Siyasiya" mantra, forgetting we are in 2016 not in 1986 and that since 2006 such talk is strictly to be used privately amongst gatherings of like minded constipated illiterates.. of course he's still in 680.
