Bassil Says FPM Not Covering Any Judge, Electricity Plan an FPM Achievement

Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Jebran Bassil on Tuesday stressed that the FPM is not providing political “cover” for any judge in the latest controversy over suspected corruption in the judicial body.

“Despite what is being said in the media, we are not covering anyone and there are no pro-presidency judges and anti-presidency judges,” Bassil said after the weekly meeting of the Strong Lebanon bloc.

“The anti-corruption drive will continue,” he stressed.

Turning to the long-awaited national electricity plan that was adopted on Monday, Bassil said the FPM's concerns over alleged attempts to obstruct the plan were justified.

“They prevented us twice from carrying out tendering processes in the electricity and oil sectors,” he noted.

“The issue of merging the temporary and final solutions was proposed by us and the minister (Nada Bustani) included it in her plan, so let them respect our intelligence,” Bassil added, in a jab at rival political parties.

As for the failure to form an electricity regulatory commission, Bassil said “the law has been stalled in parliament for seven years now.”

“We hope it will be passed,” he added.