Report: March 14 May Organize Protests to Push for Staging Presidential Elections
The March alliance is seeking to take measures that will pressure officials to exert efforts to hold the presidential elections and condemn the vacuum that emerged following the end of the term of President Michel Suleiman over the weekend, reported the Kuwaiti daily al-Anbaa on Monday.
March 14 sources told the daily that contacts are being held in order to stage popular demonstrations to pressure officials to speed up staging the elections.
The protests will also be used to express their condemnation of the positions of Hizbullah and the Free Patriotic Movement of MP Michel Aoun that caused the failure of the elections and consequent vacuum.
Suleiman's six-year term ended on Saturday with parliament failing to elect his successor due to the ongoing differences between the rival March 8 and 14 camps over the elections.
The dispute prompted the March 8 forces, namely Hizbullah and the FPM, to boycott the majority of the presidential elections sessions.
Around 40 MPs of the March 14 alliance gathered at the parliament on Saturday evening to protest the presidential vacuum, hours after Suleiman left the Baabda Palace without a successor.
"We call on lawmakers to commit to their representative role by showing up at the parliament,” a statement read by Lebanese Forces MP George Adwan said.
“The parliament's main task remains electing a new president,” it stressed.
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