جعجع يؤكد أن علاقته مع "المستقبل" أكبر من كل الخطوات السياسية: لاتخاذ موقف واتمام الاستحقاق
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تمنى رئيس حزب "القوات" اللبنانية سمير جعجع على الكتل النيابية اتخاذ موقف من اجل التوصل الى انتخابات رئاسية، مؤكدا في الوقت عينه ان علاقته مع كتلة "المستقبل" أكبر من كل الخطوات السياسية.
وقال جعجع بعد لقائه البطريرك الماروني مار بشارة بطرس الراعي في بكركي الثلاثاء "علاقتي مع الحريري والمستقبل جيدة وأكبر من كل الخطوات السياسية رغم وجود خلاف حول مرشح الرئاسة ونصل الى مواقف متقاربة.
ورأى انه "لا أجد سبباً لردود سلبية على ترشيح عون".
كما تمنى جعجع على "الكتل النيابية إتخاذ الموقف المطلوب من أجل التوصُّل الى انتخابات رئاسية بأسرع وقت ممكن".
ولفت الى ان انه وضع حزب "الكتائب" أمس الاثنين في أجواء "التلاقي الذي حصل مع العماد عون وهم من الذين يعانون أيضاً من الفراغ".

A mentally ill man goes to the doctor, but the doctor makes a very wrong diagnosis....it ends-up very badly for both....

An evil man cannot suddenly become a good man...
Remember he has received multi-millions from Iran...which means his hands are tied for ever and he is their prisonner. He knows that if he tries to escape they will get rid of him....
He is a great coward and will keep obeying !!

yeah - so have all the other politicians - received money from Saudi, France, Turkey, Qatar etc... Why is Aoun singled out here??
Please if you live in a glass house, dont throw stones.
As much as i hate Aoun, I am behind this deal, or we are doomed to lose the presidency!

hezbollah has no more excuses not to go to parliament and elect aoun... let's wait and see their true intentions. more procrastination to come LOL!

don't forget that Geagea's LF is only 5 MPs. Its not a huge change. There needs to be a 2/3rds majority for the undisputed election of a president. Yes it can be argued that now its 50% plus parliament vote, but it will be important to see how Jumblutt, Berri and Hariri vote! They have all claimed its up to the christians to agree... now they have agreed, what will they do?

Will Franjieh's Maraada party still vote for Aoun? Will the Kaeteb vote against? All of a sudden, Lebanese politics has become interesting again! Let us see the scrambling of positions. I hope and pray it settles to allow a new president that is agreed by all sides! The Lebanon is due some good fortune!

Did Aoun tell Geagea he refuses this nomination and refuses to be elected by an illegitimate and illegal parliament ? guess not

Many thanks to Hariri for breaking the Presidential deadlock by endorsing Frangieh. Now the Christians are forced to unite and finally acknowledge all of their roles in the Syrian occupation of Lebanon and the defeat of the Republic of Lebanon in the early 1990s!
Jumblatt, Berri and Hariri have the ball in their court. Lets see the truth play out!

Many thanks to the Batrak Rahi! Doctor Geagea and General Aoun making peace and political alliance can only be good for the republic of Lebanon! God bless the Batrak and Dr Geagea!

How is he a doctor? I presume he is out of respect. How is Sayyed Nasrallah a Sayyed to me? I accept that he is, out of respect! How is the mufti a mufti? How is the General a general? Lebanese love their titles, so Sheik, Beik and the rest of the titles are fine with me when showing respect. With the hope they return that respect to the people by doing good for the Lebanese!

Same as Berri is "Istez" and Nasrallah is "Sayyed" and Jumblat is "Beik" ...... we Lebanese need to get rid of such titles and just call them by name or give them the title "Nossabeen" to all of them.

It will take 64 votes of the 128 members. Under Berri's rules, there must be a quorum first which he interprets to be not a simple majority but a 2/3 majority, or 86 members. If 43 boycott, then no session. Mustaqbel has 35 members so, it alone cannot cause a boycott. Kataeb has 5, so that would make 40 if Kataeb joins with the LF and FPM on Aoun. Jumblatt, however, has 7 and remains pivotal with Mustaqbel. Between them that is 42 without Kataeb and if they bring Chamoun's 1 seat, that's a boycott under Berri's rule.

If a quorum is present, Aoun would need only a simple majority, since the first vote was taken 2 years ago and did not produce a 2/3 majority for any candidate. FPM has 20 seats; LF has 8. Assuming a bare quorum of 86 seats, 43 votes is required to elect. They will still need 15 votes. Hezbollah has 13 and AMAL has 13, this should be enough to make Aoun the Christian President elected with more Shia votes than Christian. Ironic isn't it that he has gripped all these years over Muslims voting for Christian MP's and here he is ready to enter Baabda with majority Shia Moslem votes. Iranic.

Of course, he will be 82 years old on February 18 and his health is not so good. Will he last the 6 year term to age 88? Once Aoun has left the national stage, the election of a President will not be so difficult as it will no longer have the Aoun veto to pass before coming to fruition.

Sunnis lack good leadership...Until they have a good leader, they will always be screwed by everybody. Him nominating the Marada leader was the stupidest thing ever. What was he thinking? As a Sunni, I do not blame Geagea for nominating Aoun. At least he care about his community unlike Hariri.

This is Geagea. Two women were fighting over a child both claiming to be the mother and so the dispute was taken to King Solomon for resolution. Well back then without DNA, how could he decide, both claims seemed legitimate. So he rendered his decision, he would order the baby cut in half and award one half to each woman. One woman agreed, half a loaf is better than none. The other said that she could not let the baby be killed and so conceded to giving the child to the other woman.
In this way, Solomon determined the identity of the true mother. The one who would deny herself to save her child. This is Geagea.

. . . With two miracles attributed to him. One that Aoun is elected and two that Aoun overcomes his Alzeimers disease. Then, sainthood

Now that the two biggest christian parties agreed on Aoun, it will be so interesting if Berri and Jumblatt respect this. If now there should be LF/FPM-demos to show their dismay.

With his age and mental behavior, he won't last 6 years he will die much earlier in Baabda