Jumblat Backs Anti-Corruption Battle but Not 'Attacks' on Saniora
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Progressive Socialist Party leader ex-MP Walid Jumblat announced Tuesday that he supports a “methodical battle against corruption” and not “a return to the March 8 and 14 calculations,” in reference to Lebanon's rival political camps.
Asked about the corruption-related war of words between MP Hassan Fadlallah of Hizbullah and ex-PM Fouad Saniora and other al-Mustaqbal Movement officials, Jumblat told reporters that he is “against such attacks ex-PM Fouad Saniora.”
As for the controversial issue of civil marriage, the PSP leader noted that he was the first official to voice support for its legalization, expressing surprise over the “silence” of the civil society in this regard.
Asked whether the Syrian regime has “strongly returned to Lebanon,” Jumblat said: “When did it ever leave us in order to return now?”
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"expressing surprise over the “silence” of the civil society in this regard."
He doesn't seem to be reading the news or listening in the parliament...
05 March 2019, 16:17
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"expressing surprise over the “silence” of the civil society in this regard."
He doesn't seem to be reading the news or listening in the parliament...
05 March 2019, 17:24
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" described his comments as rash and emotional. "I said, at a moment of anger, what is improper and illogical against President Bashar Assad. It was a moment of ultimate internal tension and division in Lebanon," Mr Jumblatt told Al Jazeera, adding that he hoped the easing of tensions would "open a new page".
As for the repeated accusation that President Assad's father had ordered the murder of Mr Jumblatt's father in 1977, he said that he no longer blamed the Syrian regime. Mr Jumblatt told the TV channel."
https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/druze-chief-walid-jumblatt-apologises-to-syrian-president-for-insults-1.585878
