Salam Says Rival Parties have Last Chance to Seek Consensus over Cabinet
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Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam said on Friday that his cabinet will only be formed to oversee the upcoming presidential elections and might have a roll in seeking common grounds over the matter between the Lebanese foes.
“We will give the rival parties a last chance to seek consensus over a new cabinet lineup,” Salam said in comments published in As Safir newspaper.
Salam pointed out he is waiting for the return of President Michel Suleiman, who is currently on a private vacation outside the country, to discuss with the rival parties the cabinet's formula and if it would survive the parliament's confidence vote.
Sources told the newspaper that any “settlement over the cabinet lineup is expected to see the light during the upcoming days.”
“Stability will not occur unless a balanced and acceptable cabinet was formed,” the sources added, calling on the rival parties to agree on any solution that would safeguard the country.
Salam was appointed in April but has so far been unable to put together a government over the conditions and counter conditions set by the rivals parties as fears mount that the differences between the March 8 and 14 camps would lead to a vacuum the presidential post.
Suleiman's six-year tenure ends in May 2014.
03 January 2014, 09:57
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M14 leaders act as if they want a government. They don't. Their goal is exactly what is happening now ... increasing chaos in Lebanon.
03 January 2014, 08:44
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This Tech. government is just temporary just till the presidential elections PLUS its Neutral !!! Its TEMPORARY, just enough to hold the house together till the next consensus government.
Come on M8 and M14... just agree to this temporary cabinet, the country needs something just for now!
03 January 2014, 09:00
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anyone noticed qassem comments 2 days ago where he was screaming against m14 for trying to 'profit' from shtah bombing to push for a cabinet?
and today he is doing the same!
what an asshole....
03 January 2014, 10:49
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@sagh: Christmas is over and happened to be on the 25th of December. Change your Santa Claus (Clause) CD.... Perhaps a Valentine CD since it is fast approaching.
03 January 2014, 09:15
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Belgium went on 589 days without elected government, their economy had good results during this period. Maybe we should try the same...
03 January 2014, 10:02
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cedre
you forget one detail. Belgians are a civilized society. We are not We resort to bombings innocent civilians. That never happened in belgium
03 January 2014, 10:31
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The Saudi-GCC Wahhabi plans are coming to fruition throughout the middle east and beyond. The Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Ramadi are now Qaeda strongholds while Iraq is besieged by violence.
In Syria the fight is on south of Damascus and around Qalamoun. In the east Syrian territory is under Qaeda control. In Libya foreigners and government officials are being assassinated right and left.
Pipeline are being blown up in several different countries while Bandar looks to have turned the Chechens loose on Russia in Volgograd threatening Putin's beloved Sochi Olympics ...
And of course in Lebanon suicide car bombers and assassins are striking with ever increasing frequency. M14 sabotage of the governance of Lebanon is just a part of the KSA-GCC plan to embroil all of MENA.
When one looks at the whole picture these are of course not isolated incidents but part and parcel of a Satanic Plan devised and funded by the KSA, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and their billionaire princes.
