Report: Aoun to Escalate Rhetoric on March 14 Anniversary

Head of the Change Reform bloc MP Michel Aoun is scheduled to make a televised appearance on Tuesday to mark the March 14, 1989 anniversary, reported al-Liwaa newspaper on Saturday.

Concerned sources refused to divulge the details of the speech, but they expected that the lawmaker will “escalate his rhetoric in wake of the recent stances made by Mustaqbal chief MP Saad Hariri.”

Hariri had on Thursday re-asserted his commitment to the nomination of Marada Movement leader MP Suleiman Franjieh as president.

Aoun is also running for the position.

The sources ruled out however the possibility that Aoun would go so far as to make his ministers resign from government or his MPs from parliament.

He will however stress the need to hold the municipal and parliamentary elections at the same time.

The Change and Reform bloc had made this proposal on Tuesday.

The municipal polls are set for May 8 and the bloc said that the parliamentary ones could be staged at the same time by simply adding an additional ballot box at polling stations.