Baabda Reportedly Insisting on 5 Key Ministerial Portfolios
The Baabda camp is insisting on being allocated five key ministerial portfolios in the new government, a media report said.
In the 14th meeting between President Michel Aoun and PM-designate Saad Hariri, “the Baabda camp demanded the following portfolios: energy, telecommunications, interior, defense and justice, which means all the sensitive ministries in the period of opening files or the avoidance of opening other files,” sources told al-Liwaa newspaper in remarks published Monday.
Official sources informed on Aoun and Hariri’s meetings meanwhile said that the PM-designate is “insisting on the justice portfolio and will not give it up no matter what the circumstances and reasons might be.”
“He is proposing for it Mrs. Lubna Omar Misqawi, while Aoun has proposed the name of the lawyer Adel Yammine for the interior portfolio,” the sources said.
“But Hariri has also rejected that the interior portfolio be part of Aoun’s share along with the defense portfolio,” the sources added.
Al-Liwaa also reported that the continued impasse might push Hariri to “expose the contacts that have taken place and the role of the team of advisers and the head of the Strong Lebanon bloc MP Jebran Bassil.”
28 December 2020, 12:59
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This is more evidence aoun and bassil are doing everything to facilitate government formation and as they have said on numerous occasions" We're not asking for anything in the new government for ourselves".
28 December 2020, 15:03
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Basically, aoun, bassil and hezbollah want total control. They want to fabricate files for their opponents, suppress freedoms, and rule Lebanon like a dictatorship.
28 December 2020, 19:40
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Aoun and Bassil only deserve lifetime prison so they'll have enough time to ponder on all the damages, hopes and lives they ruined in Lebanon. We can always prosecute corruption, even decades after their crimes, but the harm from destroying a Country and selling it to the Basij and their criminal militia have caused irreparable damage for millions. Anyone still supporting FPM should have his brain examined and share responsibility of the premeditated murder of a country and an entire generation.
28 December 2020, 20:05
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The Baabda camp buy all their gear at L.L. Bean's. Hurry while supplies last!
If Naharnet.com had an ounce of courage, Lebanon might be a lot closer to a government.
You start your defense against the abuser who wants you to dummy up by asking, "Is there anything in particular that you are afraid I will say?"
For instance, Naharnet found the courage to quote Macron calling for the end of sectarianism in Lebanese governance, quoted him twice, but has not yet found the courage to locate the source of sectarianism, being Article 24 of the Constitution which reserves half of parliamentary seats for Christians. When Rahi speaks of "equality" he is nodding to this parity, but Naharnet never explains his term.
You can either chase a dwindling readership by catering to their evident prejudices or try to expand the readership by widening your journalistic ambitions.
29 December 2020, 05:38
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cristhians.... Christians ...cristhianity?
make up your mind tric.portugal how you want to write "Christians" ya troll!
