Report: Hizbullah Rejects PSP Law Format, Four-Party Meeting over Electoral Law Fails
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربيةAn extended four-party meeting held at the Center House Sunday evening failed to record a breakthrough agreement on a new electoral law for Lebanon's parliamentary polls, as Hizbullah party “mourned” a law format suggested by the Progressive Socialist Party, media reports said on Tuesday.
“The meeting was held in the presence of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil, Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil, Hizbullah secretary-general's political aide Hussein Khalil and Hariri's chief of staff Nader Hariri,” al-Joumhouria daily reported.
“The interlocutors failed to reach common ground on any of the formats and ideas that have been presented by various political parties so far. Meanwhile, Bassil stressed adherence to his law format which be believes is best for the Christians and ensures just representation,” said the daily.
“In parallel with Hariri's leniency towards adopting Bassil's so called qualification system, it was openly rejected by the Finance Minister and Hizbullah secretary-general's political aide who reiterated adherence to proportional representation system,” of Hizbullah's, it added.
Al-Joumhouria pointed out that Hizbullah MP Mohammed Raad has openly rejected the Progressive Socialist Party leader's law format. During a political meeting in south Lebanon, Raad dubbed the format as a “waste of time as well as procrastination.”
Monday evening, Prime Minister Saad Hariri met at the Center House with a delegation from the Progressive Socialist Party where discussions focused on the ongoing contacts with the various parties to devise a new draft electoral law.
The delegation explained the content of the draft law that has been proposed by the party in this regard.
The PSP had on Saturday proposed a hybrid electoral law that mixes the proportional representation and winner-takes-all systems in an equal manner across 26 districts.
Hizbullah has repeatedly called for an electoral law fully based on the proportional representation system and a single or several large electorates.
Here's a bit of advice, before any of the draft laws are adopted: Institute a foreign-agent electoral ban, meaning that anybody who has been on a foreign government's payroll to advance the local interests of that foreign nation, be that nation Iran or Saudi Arabia or Syria or Israel, will not be allowed to vote or run for office in Lebanon. Only then can Lebanon truly be a country for the Lebanese, by the Lebanese.
Even before that, arrest, jail and execute a traitor who says publicly he receives money, weapons, food from Iran, his allegiance to iran, and does whatever waliy al faqih in iran orders him to do.
Once you do that, then we can start dreaming of having a state.
Why did Lebanon let these foreigners in? Money, and now ironically they're paying the price for their greed. You have fundamentalist whackjobs imposing on every aspect of Lebanese life...
Lebanon used to be a beautiful country...maybe still is but has been bought and sold by Syria. Yet...you all seem to hate Israel. Hmmmm?