Gemayel: Miqati’s Govt. Actually Got '56 Votes'
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In the first comment by an opposition leader on the vote of confidence Premier Najib Miqati’s government won earlier in the day by a 68-vote majority, Phalange Party leader Amin Genayel sarcastically said “Miqati’s government actually got 56 votes.”
Explaining his point of view, Gemayel deducted the 12 votes of the members of Hizbullah’s Loyalty to Resistance bloc, noting that the remarks of MP Mohammed Raad, the head of the bloc, during the debate on the Policy Statement “totally contradict with the Policy Statement’s 14th article,” which stipulates that Lebanon will “respect” the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.
“MP Raad’s remarks totally disavowed this tribunal and considered it null and void,” Gemayel added, highlighting the contradiction between Raad’s remarks and the government’s Policy Statement.
Miqati’s government on Thursday won a vote of confidence in parliament, after opposition MPs walked out en masse moments before the vote.
Miqati's government secured 68 out of a possible 128 votes in parliament, where Hizbullah and its allies hold a slight majority.
During the vote, opposition MPs Robert Ghanem and Imad al-Hout remained in the parliament hall but abstained from voting.
Lebanese Democratic Party leader MP Talal Arslan, who is a member of the parliamentary majority, did not attend the session.
Arslan had resigned as state minister from Miqati’s cabinet hours after its line-up was announced in protest at the fact that he was not granted a key portfolio.
Meanwhile, MPs Nicolas Fattoush and Michel Murr, who were allied with the opposition during the 2009 parliamentary elections, granted the government their votes of confidence.
07 July 2011, 19:55
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Sheikh Amin is correct. Hezbollah is not in accord with the Policy Statement's provisions with regard to the STL. Their vote for the Cabinet and its policy statement, in light of the position of Nasrallah and all of the Hezbollah Deputies, especially Mr. Raad's, is dishonest.
Where does Hezbollah stand now with the STL? Do they stand with Nasrallah or with the Policy Statement under which their government was formed.
07 July 2011, 21:01
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Cheikh Amine , Go and learn how to count , and also , learn democracy and respect .
You are not entitled to speak officially , let your son Samy speak , at least an elected MP and will never say stupid things like you do .
08 July 2011, 00:00
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God bless the Islamic republic of Iran for resuming it's financing of Hezballah's "Shiite trying to pass for a Christian" program and our Shiite bother Le Finicien.
I wholeheartedly agree with you Shiite brother Le Finicien, Cheikh Amine is not entitled to speak officially as opposed to Sayyed Hassan officially appointed by the magnificent his beatitude Grand Ayatollah Khamenei as his special official spokesman in the Levant, well said my Shiite brother Le Finicien well said.
Also as the magnificent Mohammed Obaid of Hezballah said Bashir Gemayel deserved to be murdered he was an Israeli agent, not any replies from you my Shiite brother Le Finicien and the magnificent GMA of anyone in his party of his media because it's true.
08 July 2011, 00:10
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Yet you seem so quick to listen to Nasralah ya Phenicien... :) At least Gemayel was once president and has been elected before...Nasrallahholds none of those benefits
08 July 2011, 00:11
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By to the same logic of cheikh Amin 3ala al fashal al da2em, the 5-member Phalange party now counts only 2, Amin and Samy.
08 July 2011, 07:30
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There only down to 2 because hezbollah murdered the others, all the political murders hezhollah was behind them 100%.
Also there is one thing I believe strongly is that the murder of Pierre Gemayel was murdered and I reckon Fadi Abboud (minister of tourism) had a hand as at that stage he was with him day and night and he was the one that knew all his movements, and then after 2 years Aoun puts him as a minister, something to think about............ Fadi Abboud is a phony............
08 July 2011, 11:50
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Miqati’s Govt. Actually Got 1 Vote, Nasrallah's.
That was all they needed.
Enjoy your decent into Hezbollah dominated hell Lebanon.
Enjoy your upcoming pounding by Israel
08 July 2011, 16:21
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Le Phenicien
يا اخي ملينا من تعليقاتك و مسخرتك
كلامك دليل حقد و خرفة و لا ادري ماذا اقول بعد
كانه البلد بطل فيه ناس بتفهم الا اساتذتك
09 July 2011, 04:54
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Who's counting? The important thing is whose butt was kicked good to the point where a few were kicked out of this continent with more to follow. Always miscalculating, always repeating the same mistakes, always wrong.
