FPM Officials Liken Trump's Election to Aoun's as Wahhab Tweets Humor
Several Lebanese officials took to Twitter on Wednesday to comment on Donald Trump's shock win in the U.S. presidential election.
“Two dates America will never forget: 11/9 & 9/11... Two dates Lebanon will never forget: 13/10 & 31/10,” Free Patriotic Movement chief and caretaker Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil tweeted in English.
He was referring to FPM founder Michel Aoun's election as Lebanon's president on October 31 and Aoun's ouster from the Baabda Palace at the hands of Syrian forces on October 13, 1990.
MP Alain Aoun of the FPM meanwhile tweeted that “within two weeks, two unconventional presidential candidates opposed by the traditional political class have won the elections thanks to popular will.”
Aoun eventually deleted the tweet, saying it was misinterpreted and noting that the two figures and two political systems cannot be compared.
Meanwhile, pro-Damascus Arab Tawhid Party leader ex-minister Wiam Wahhab took to Twitter to remind of sanctions that were imposed on him by George W. Bush's administration.
“After Trump's win, we have dropped all the sanctions that were imposed by the Jahliyeh Municipality during the tenure of the crazy U.S. president Bush, and we hope he (Trump) will treat us the same,” Wahhab tweeted, describing Trump as “honest” and slamming his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton as a “liar.”
Jahliyeh is Wahhab's hometown.
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