Report: Baabda Circles Explain Aoun's 'Historic' Move
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President Michel Aoun's move where he invoked his constitutional powers to adjourn the parliament for one month, is only the second in Lebanon's history since 1926, media reports said on Thursday.
In their first interpretation, Presidential Palace sources told al-Joumhouria daily that “Aoun has used his constitutional powers to freeze the work of the parliament under article 59 of the constitution, replicating a similar move in 1926 when then president did the same.”
The sources stressed that Aoun's step “constitutes a full exercise of the President's powers that came to control an emerging crisis as the result of ignoring the role and jurisdictions of the President.”
“None of the former presidents have used this jurisdiction before the Taef Agreement,” the sources noted, adding “they used to send messages to the parliament that were recited by the Speaker in the first public session held and then placed in the drawer.”
On Wednesday, Aoun addressed the nation from the Presidential Palace and said he is invoking his constitutional powers to adjourn the parliament for one month.
Lebanon's deputies were set to vote in Parliament on Thursday to postpone national elections and extend their term for a third time since 2013.
The President justified the adjournment to give legislators time to craft a new election law and hold elections as quickly as possible.
Lebanon's political parties say it is time to scrap the country's 1960 voting law that allocates seats by religious sect, but disagree over what system should replace it.
Aoun says he was elected president last October with the mandate of ushering in a new law, and elections.
Opposition parties and civic groups are threatening demonstrations against any parliamentary extension tomorrow.
Article 59 of the Constitution (as amended by Constitutional Law issued on October 17, 1927) says: The President of the Republic may postpone the meeting of the parliament to a period not exceeding one month and shall not do so twice in a single term.
13 April 2017, 10:01
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March 14 fears this move, mainly because majority of people that resides in Lebanon are Pro March 8.
13 April 2017, 11:07
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the majority of the people are fed up with people like you... fed up with both M14 and M8, all crooks that you actively support...till there are sheep like you blindly following your leaders, lebanon will stay in the middle ages...
13 April 2017, 11:25
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there is no M14 as a political leadership. Their two main leaders Hariri and Geagea both elected an iranian backed president and share the same government with a terror militia and in doing so legitimized its activities.
M14 was an idea/vision and still is; an idea that rejects your iranian islamist hegemony over Lebanon and its way of life.
As to the Majority of people that reside in Lebanon are pro M8; all I can say is no surprise coming from a deluded propagandist.
13 April 2017, 11:45
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"M14 was an idea/vision and still is"
yes and it was hijacked by politicians who claimed it was their idea but remember how silent they were in 2005 for a month none of them said a word! they were all overcome by the people's will...
lebanon is ruled by tens of little dictators all agreeing to share the cake on the back of the people...
13 April 2017, 13:01
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Monsieur Peace, we are M14, not the politicians. line up all M14 politicians downtown, it'll have no weight. then line up millions of M14 like you and I up there and that would resonate throughout the world.
Remember that Geagea, Gemayel, Hariri, Jumblatt and friends are there to serve us, not the other way around... and yes they fail and disappoint us more often than we'd like.
