Bassil meets Safa as FPM-Hezbollah ties warm up
Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil is continuing his “openness initiative” towards the Shiite Duo, a media report said.
It seems that Bassil’s steps “are much bigger than the political-electoral alliance at the elections of the Beirut Order of Engineers and Architects, the repeated meetings between Bassil and Speaker Nabih Berri, and the resumption of meetings with Hezbollah,” ad-Diyar newspaper reported on Monday.
In this regard, highly-informed political and partisan sources revealed to the daily that Bassil had met with a Hezbollah delegation led by Wafiq Safa around 20 days ago, “in the wake of the murder of Lebanese Forces official Pascal Sleiman and prior to the political and electoral juncture at the Order of Engineers, amid cold ties between the two sides.”
“This meeting, in terms of its important timing and content, ends all speculation about a severed relation between the two sides and about the resistance’s loss of Christian and national support for its weapons,” ad-Diyar said.
The sources added that “communication between Hezbollah and the FPM will be resumed to manage any dispute and improve the common denominators,” emphasizing “the importance of the messages that Bassil sent during his visit to Jezzine yesterday.”
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