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Report: Jumblat to meet Safa in bid to join 'winning team'

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat will meet with Hezbollah coordination official Wafiq Safa by the end of the week, MTV said Wednesday.

It quoted a source close to the PSP as saying that "Jumblat has read the situation well and has chosen to be with the winning team."

"The next settlement will result in a winner and a loser," the source told MTV.

Jumblat had said in an interview that dialogue with Hezbollah is essential, and that he will meet with Hezbollah representatives in the coming days.

Jumblat's positioning is crucial as the latest parliamentary election has yielded a polarized and fractured parliament that denied any single bloc a clear-cut majority.

Thus, the Democratic Gathering Bloc MPs can play a decisive role in choosing the next President.

The relation between Jumblat and Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea is currently stagnant, according to MTV, specially after Jumblat's latest statements.

Source: Naharnet


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