Hizbullah, PSP: For Further Talks on Electoral Law, Protection of Lebanon from Syria Repercussions
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Hizbullah and the Progressive Socialist Party have agreed on the need for further discussions among the various parties over the electoral law that will govern the 2013 parliamentary vote, and on the need to “protect Lebanon from the repercussions of the Syrian crisis,” a top Hizbullah official told al-Manar television on Friday, following a dinner banquet that gathered the two parties overnight Thursday.
The dinner was held at the house of Hizbullah Minister Hussein al-Hajj Hassan and attended by Hizbullah Minister Mohammed Fneish, member of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Hassan Fadlallah and Hizbullah top official Wafiq Safa.
As to the PSP representatives, they included Ministers Ghazi Aridi and Wael Abou Faour, and MP Akram Shehayyeb.
“This is the third meeting between the two parties and it is part of the routine contacts between the two sides,” the Hizbullah source told al-Manar.
“There is disagreement over the approach towards the Syrian crisis,” the source said, but noted that the conferees stressed “the need to agree on an electoral law that would be the most representative of all parties and on the need to keep the current government and activate its work.”
PSP leader MP Walid Jumblat hinted on Friday that members of his parliamentary bloc would reject a partial settlement to the controversial extra-budgetary spending if the issue was discussed at parliament again.
In remarks to As Safir daily, Jumblat said: “We have previously said that we reject partial solutions and settlements.”
He made his statement in response to a question if his MPs would guarantee a quorum if Speaker Nabih Berri called for a session to discuss the $5.9 billion draft-law.
The parliament has previously failed to approve it after MPs from both the March 14 opposition and Jumblat’s National Struggle Front bloc blocked it over demands to include the spending of the governments of ex-PMs Fouad Saniora and Saad Hariri in the settlement.
But the March 8 ministers led by Hizbullah, AMAL Movement and the Free Patriotic Movement are pressuring President Michel Suleiman to sign it based on article 58 of the constitution to avoid another parliamentary setback.
11 May 2012, 21:46
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Hizballa, Amal and the FPM are the root causes for weak and fragmented Lebanon.
12 May 2012, 18:09
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i advise you FT to reread aoun pecches before he became the wife of hezb: he was more M14 than M8 at the time!
i guess you called him an idiot at the time and worth of being killed! hahaha!
11 May 2012, 23:49
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why is that allouchi? because hezb detains more weapons than anyone else in lebanon and uses it to blackmail the country. they obey iran as they pledge their allegiance to them (did they ever pledge allegiance to lebanon? no...) they are called islamic resistance but not lebanese resistance.
and amal just follows and FPM is their faithful pup paid by iranian dollars!
no other country in the world accepts a party to be more powerful than the army, and those FPMers claiming to be democrats accept that after having called them for years "terrorists"!!!!
12 May 2012, 09:43
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How can Hizbollah protect Lebanon from Syria's events since they are Syrian agents in Lebanon? Ever since Syria channeled all those arms all those killing weapons to them, they grew from a refugee status in Dahyé, from a poor politcal movement fighting for the socalled less favored chiites, to becoming the political gang we know through murder, drug trafficking, and bullying. They ow it to the syrian and their basij allies. This party should be banned and it's member behind bars for an uncompressible life sentence after the STL work is over!
