Reports: Hizbullah Supports Aoun, but Refuses Authority Without Berri
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Hizbullah has decided to support its ally MP Michel Aoun in spite of Speaker Nabih Berri's opposition, but the party has also decided not to be in power without the Speaker and stressed commitment to this partnership, An Nahar daily reported on Saturday.
Hizbullah believes that this partnership is taking into consideration not only the unity of the community but is also based on the firm conviction that it falls in the interest of the country, added the daily.
Sources close to Hizbullah said that the party sees a duty and necessity to work on comprehensive understandings that do not distance anyone.
Therefore it will assess Berri's opposition and escalation more as raising the roof, and less as cutting the road short on the election of Aoun, especially when it becomes clear that entrenching stability in Lebanon and restoring normal and dynamic life to its institutions is the title of the next phase.
Al-Mustaqbal Movement chief Saad Hariri had formally announced his endorsement of Aoun for the presidency on Thursday after his previous support for the presidential nomination of Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh was met with reservations from the country's main Christian parties as well as Hizbullah.
Berri has openly announced that he will not vote for Aoun in any presidential election session and some officials of his AMAL Movement have accused Aoun and Hariri of seeking a bilateral agreement that would marginalize Shiites in power, allegations that Aoun and his movement have denied.
Lebanon has been without a president since the term of Michel Suleiman ended in May 2014 and Hizbullah, 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.
The supporters of Aoun's presidential bid have argued 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.
22 October 2016, 15:23
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"AMAL Movement have accused Aoun and Hariri of seeking a bilateral agreement that would marginalize Shiites in power"............. How?!! Freaking Hisb'tizzi has been saying all along they apparently want Aoun!
22 October 2016, 16:05
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Hizbullah Supports Aoun, but Refuses Authority Without Berri
.... there is always a but !!!!!!!!
22 October 2016, 18:24
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i know you feel humiliated, but i'm only stating the truth about you...
btw: this country since the Phoenician, the ancestors of most Lebanese: Christians, Druz and Shia, is generous with everybody including you and alike, although defend the enemy state of Israel, the only enemy.
23 October 2016, 08:26
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@libanobrasil
I don't know what it is about you, but your aura reminds me of Martin Luther King Jr.
Are you by any chance a descendant of his?
22 October 2016, 16:27
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In other words - we totally support aoun being president but we totally also support blocking him from being president.
22 October 2016, 16:28
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Time to see who from the aounists here were truly FPMers and who were hizbist taqiyyah scouts pretending to be aounists in order to post propaganda with the aim to benefit their own vilayet el faqih party.
22 October 2016, 20:28
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Berri's position on Aoun has been widely known, if not always advertised, from the beginning two and a half years ago yet hassin and co kept insisting all this time that Hariri should stop obstructing and nominate Aoun for the presidential crisis will be over. But now that Hariri has gone ahead and nominated Aoun hassin and co are singing a new song with new demands. God I hate filthy lying hypocrites especially when they keep pretending they are men of God
22 October 2016, 20:59
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hehe! hezbollah jus woke up and learned that Berri does not want aoun. If hariri does not want aoun then it is obstruction, marginalization of Christians, violation of the constitution, boa boa bla. When Berrir does not want aoun it is god knows what but certainly not obstruction.
22 October 2016, 22:08
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For the two and a half years hassin was telling Hariri "if you want to elect a president go see Aoun"; now the sewer rat is telling Aoun "if you want to become president go see Berri". Isn't this disrespect and marginalization of the Christians in a nutshell? Funny thing Aoun is so desperate for the presidency he's doing what he's been told and it still doesn't seem to be enough.
23 October 2016, 06:53
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It simply means that we will have a president but only a caretaker government with limited authority and the Hezb can continue Iran's biding without interference
23 October 2016, 08:23
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@libanobrasil
You seem like an educated nice guy... I hope you are not sectarian.
23 October 2016, 14:29
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Libanoiran, you do know that hasan nasrallah and other shiites claim to be sayyid (descended from the Prophet PBUH) right? That means from arabia :)
Now what proof do you have that sunnis are from arabia and that other sects are natives lol? The arab tribe Bani ghassan was in the levent before the Muslims. Bani Ghassan were christians. Jumblat family is kurdish.
All lebanese communities have mixed ancestry from various people. The levant was the melting pot of the world. Only families who married within the family and tribe can have some sort of an ancestry that isen't as mixed as others but even then their ancestors will have traces of other people.
