Hizbullah MP Calls for Detaching Lebanon's Crisis from Regional Crises
Outspoken Hizbullah MP Nawwaf al-Moussawi on Sunday called for “detaching Lebanon's crisis from the regional crises that are surrounding it, especially the Yemeni, Syrian and Iraqi crises.”
“The political forces must seek to pull Lebanon out of its crisis,” Moussawi urged.
“We must take the necessary measures that can revive the normal work of state institutions,” he added.
“Those who do not want partitioning or the disintegration of the Lebanese entity must seek a political understanding with the real and actual representatives of the Lebanese political community and civil society,” Moussawi went on to say, stressing that “Lebanon is the country of renewed settlements.”
Hizbullah has recently showed solidarity with its main Christian ally the Free Patriotic Movement by boycotting a cabinet session that was held in the absence of FPM's ministers.
The FPM, which has the biggest Christian bloc in parliament, has suspended its participation in cabinet sessions and national dialogue meetings over accusations that other parties in the country are not respecting the National Pact.
The 1943 National Pact is an unwritten agreement that set the foundations of modern Lebanon as a multi-confessional state based on Christian-Muslim partnership.
Lebanon has been without a president since the term of Michel Suleiman ended in May 2014 and Hizbullah, FPM founder MP Michel Aoun's Change and Reform bloc and some of their allies have been boycotting the parliament's electoral sessions, stripping them of the needed quorum.
Al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri, who is close to Saudi Arabia, launched an initiative in late 2015 to nominate Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh for the presidency but his proposal was met with reservations from the country's main Christian parties as well as Hizbullah.
The supporters of Aoun's presidential bid argue that he is more eligible than Franjieh to become president due to the size of his parliamentary bloc and his bigger influence in the Christian community.
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