FPM Convoys Roam Streets ahead of Friday Demo
The Free Patriotic Movement staged another motorized protest on Wednesday to mobilize supporters ahead of Friday's downtown Beirut demonstration.
The convoys gathered outside the Mirna Chalouhi Center in Sin el-Fil before roaming several towns and villages in the Metn region.
LBCI television said one of the convoys briefly blocked the presidential palace's main entrance in Baabda to demand the election of a “strong president.”
State-run National News Agency meanwhile said Republican Guard troops took strict security measures around the palace “over reports that young men from the FPM will head to the presidential palace.”
FPM supporters also staged a motorized protest in several coastal and mountainous Keserwan areas, NNA said.
The agency said meetings aimed at preparing for Friday's demo were held at the FPM office in the Mirna Chalouhi Center. Ministers Jebran Bassil and Elias Bou Saab and MPs Ibrahim Kanaan and Nabil Nicolas took part in the meetings.
The movement has organized several similar protests in recent weeks. One of the demos descended into clashes with security forces that left several troops and protesters injured.
Last Friday, FPM chief MP Michel Aoun reiterated his call for the election of a president through a popular rather than a parliamentary vote. He also invited FPM supporters to carry out a protest next Friday “to ask for reform and for participation in decision-making, and to call for fighting corruption.”
The demonstration is scheduled to be held at 5:30 pm in downtown Beirut's Martyrs Square.
Aoun also called for the approval of an electoral law based on proportional representation and the formation of a government that introduces reforms.
In recent months, the FPM chief has slammed what he calls the “marginalization” of Christians in state institutions, amid a dispute in cabinet over military appointments and another over the government's decision-making mechanism amid the absence of a president.
The disputes prompted Aoun and his ministers to accuse Prime Minister Tammam Salam of infringing on the jurisdiction of the Christian president.
Y.R.
02 September 2015, 21:15
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Less than 100 cars with max 2 people in each car...nothing worth mentioning...
03 September 2015, 12:15
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i saw the convoy humble,yesterday evening near Bikfaya, the cars were pretty full with 3-4 persons in each, but no more that 40-45 cars... nothing impressive at all... plus they were blocking the traffic as usual, but all parties tend to do that (so stupid).
03 September 2015, 13:18
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The old fart Claoun is a plagiarist by excellence. In the past, he wanted to be seen as a Napoleon Bonaparte, then a De Gaul, then as a Bachir Gemayel, then as the father and mother of M14, now he wants to try and rob the square of the youth movement, tsk. The You Stink filled the square with between 150 to 250K people, does the old fart believe he can even fill a corner? In his classic stupidity, he confronted the youth movement by telling them to return to him back his slogans, what an idiot to be honest. Claoun is good at one thing, making enemies with anyone whom he feels has surpassed him, fact is, he who doesn't learn from the mistakes of the past, is doomed to repeat them, but at a mounting cost. The old fart is broke, that simple.
02 September 2015, 21:38
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There are still some idiots who are still living in 1989, for sure, but they are quickly becoming a minority, especially after the Bassil "election" charade last week.
02 September 2015, 22:09
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SOS....in dangerous.....SOS
safe shakespeare from tric.portugal of acuse Salam, the Daesh!!!
I have afraid
02 September 2015, 22:20
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No Sir. A lot less...much less than you think. Among this much less, few are ready to demonstrate.
02 September 2015, 22:36
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Trick tock tock nock nock, with great pleasure we heard the news of your mental breakdown crisis is over, for now. BEING stuck and looking stupid when getting your answers that make so much sense to be put in garbage. YOU ARE the best Portugase imposter where your likes are rare to find unless we visit a dirty stable, in Corasao, in Africa not Portugal.
02 September 2015, 22:39
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Tric Trac can regain his soul by searching for it.....his soul is where his Cristhian friends from the CAPORAL gang are.
Where are they?
Are they in Heaven? Probably not! In Hell? Most certainly. But how can Tric Trac go to Hell to get back his soul when Hell is filled by Daesh?
His soul is now in friendly contact with Daesh...and his soul can see Daesh everywhere even in the Vatican...
03 September 2015, 11:52
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lol peacelover, and where did you pull those figures from? You guys are funny, the way you just make up figures and run with them
03 September 2015, 14:13
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That was cheap and random phoenix. If you want to say this about me, then please show me where I threw random figures without backing them up with sources?
03 September 2015, 14:30
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yes please phoenix show mowaten were he threw random figures without backing them up. Mowaten speaks on behalf of the majority, the majority that you know thing about but he does.
03 September 2015, 12:21
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How do you know that hassan, have you ever watched the Simpsons?
03 September 2015, 12:23
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Anyone who thinks that Porty is legit has some serious, I mean real serous isuues.
03 September 2015, 12:34
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Meanwhile in Dahieh, Baalbek, Bin Jbeil, z3aytrieh and all over the bee2a al 7adina lil iranian mercs, shops are runing out of orange tshirts, hats, scarfs ets as 1000s of hezb members prepare to join aoun's Friday demo to make it look much larger than the previous punny ones, so he and new head bassil don't embarrass themselves like they did previously
03 September 2015, 14:16
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what do you know about it ya "basso"? again m14 supporters doing what they do best: random slandering
03 September 2015, 14:19
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and what is wrong with those areas you mentioned? aren't they lebanese? dont they have the right to support the FPM? what a cheap mentality you guys have
03 September 2015, 14:40
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nothing wrong at all they are lebanese and in fact I love them all but.. where were they the last bunch of times aoun called for demonstrations. Them joining en masse now makes it a iranian mercs demo ironically under the cynical pretense of returning the rights to the Christians we've all heard before and elections from the people, a slogan a few christian and many fpmers still believe when coming from aoun; especially after he would not even let the people of the fpm vote for their president or even his vps because the candidate he wanted would lose.
03 September 2015, 15:02
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mowaten why didn't you condemn what @ashrafieh wrote above considering you always highlight sectarian rhetoric and make a point of it when it concerns shiaa? I know you are secular but please!
03 September 2015, 15:09
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Aoun redefined democracy and has taken it to levels never known or practiced before. Since 2008, he engaged in unparalleled double standards of his definition of democracy:
1. He is in the ruling coalition but also in the opposition
2. He is in the government but he demonstrates against it on the streets
3. He is in Parliament but does not accept its legitimacy
4. He accepts dialogue but only on his own terms “ Me or Nobody”
5. Any successful marketable slogan is his personal intellectual property and any clear failure is attributed to his political opponents
6. Demands presidential elections by the people but forbids his own party members from electing their party president
03 September 2015, 15:09
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7. Denounces the election of a Christian MP by an opposing Moslem ( Sunni) block but wants the election of the Christian President by an allied Moslem (Shia) block
8. Built his reputation on fighting political family dynasties but adopts it in his own party
9. Lashes out at demonstrators and cautions against chaos but calls his own party for a tsunami on the streets
10. Claims his “fatherhood” of the army but accuses the army of ineffectiveness and bias while proclaiming his support for an armed illegal sectarian militia
11. Claims neutrality and is against outside interference but declares he is part of a regional axis who according to him is winning the regional wars thus enhancing his chances of becoming president.
03 September 2015, 17:44
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@slammerz@flamethrower
"Aoun also warned that there will be a “tsunami” if the rivals do not heed his demands."
read this article and the above statement is the third paragraph from the end.
Aoun Warns against 'Provocation', Rules Out Election of 'Non-representative President'
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/187424
03 September 2015, 17:49
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It was me who referred to General Aoun as Tsunami way before Jumblatt did!
04 September 2015, 13:07
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tfeh 3aleik mowaten for pretending to be Lebanese, while all you do is lick the boots of these brutal sectarian corrupt iranian mullahs. You are anything but Lebanese.
03 September 2015, 19:42
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Oh dear Mowaten, I have tons of debris from you littering this forum, to exonerate yourself from that won't be that simple, I would however take it in good faith should you continue to post in the way and manner you did to respond to me in this thread, in fact this is what I've been prodding you to do for quite a while.
03 September 2015, 13:14
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Tric, do you love God? Please, it's Christians, not Cristhians, capice?
03 September 2015, 16:12
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Imbessil would make a great environment minister, another ministry for him to loot
03 September 2015, 19:45
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The Tsunami now belongs to the You Stink Youth movement, Claoun's is not even a wave, this is what's killing poor Aoun.
