Bassil, March 8 Sunnis Lock Horns over Govt. Seat

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The Consultative Gathering has not accepted any of Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil’s new proposals regarding the sixth Sunni seat in the new government, media reports said.

“Bassil has proposed several ideas, with one calling for the Consultative Gathering MPs to pick their minister from among three candidates proposed by the President,” March 8 sources told al-Akhbar newspaper in remarks published Monday.

The FPM chief is “seeking this exit because he is opposed to the nomination of MP Faisal Karami adviser Othman Majzoub and Taha Naji, the candidate of the Association of Islamic Charitable Projects (al-Ahbash),” the sources said.

But, according to the sources, Bassil’s proposal is “doomed to fail because the parties concerned will not accept it, specifically the Consultative Gathering.”

The six MPs of the Gathering have meanwhile agreed among each other on three possible solutions according to al-Akhbar.

“The first would be for the minister to be one of them; the second would be to choose from the three candidates Taha Naji, Othman Majzoub and Hassan Mrad; and the third would be to pick al-Ittihad Party politburo member Hisham Tabbara should the three aforementioned nominees be rejected,” the daily said.

The last suggestion has, however, only been endorsed by Gathering members Abdul Rahim Mrad, Al-Waleed Sukkariyeh and Jihad al-Samad, al-Akhbar added.

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