Report: Qansou Visited Franjieh after Syrian Dismay over Aoun's Latest Tour
The latest visit by pro-Damascus MP Assem Qansou of the Baath Party to Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh came after Syrian “dismay” over the recent meetings that Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun held in Beirut, a media report said on Saturday.
“The visit reflected signals from the leadership of the Baath Party in the Syrian capital and the dismay of Damascus, and maybe its other allies, over Aoun's latest tour,” the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Anbaa reported.
Aoun had visited Speaker Nabih Berri and Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Latif Daryan on the first day of Eid al-Fitr on Wednesday. He also held talks on the same day with Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Awadh Asiri.
After talks with Franjieh in Bnashii on Thursday, Qansou announced that the Marada leader “is the guarantee.”
“We came here today to emphasize this communication between us and Suleiman Beik and to stress that we share the same policy and support for the resistance,” Qansou said.
There has been speculation that the latest rapprochement between Aoun and Berri could lead to an agreement over the stalled presidential election or the parliamentary polls.
Lebanon has been without a president since the term of Michel Suleiman ended in May 2014 and Hizbullah, Aoun's Change and Reform bloc and some of their allies have been boycotting the electoral sessions at parliament, stripping them of the needed quorum.
Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri, who is close to Saudi Arabia, launched an initiative in late 2015 to nominate Marada Movement chief MP Suleiman Franjieh for the presidency but his proposal was met with reservations from the country's main Christian parties as well as Hizbullah.
The supporters of Aoun's presidential bid argue that he is more eligible than Franjieh to become president due to the size of his parliamentary bloc and his bigger influence in the Christian community.
09 July 2016, 16:04
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“We came here today to emphasize this communication between us and Suleiman Beik and to stress that we share the same policy and support for the resistance,” Qansou said.
The same policy of treason and corruption; a trademark of the syrian regime.
09 July 2016, 19:37
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Found this in French by De la Fontaine. It was written for Lebanon! The donkey could be the petroleum.
Les Voleurs et l'Âne.
Pour un Âne enlevé deux Voleurs se battaient :
L'un voulait le garder, l'autre le voulait vendre.
Tandis que coups de poing trottaient,
Et que nos champions songeaient à se défendre,
Arrive un troisième Larron
Qui saisit Maître Aliboron.
L'Âne, c'est quelquefois une pauvre province :
Les Voleurs sont tel ou tel prince,
Comme le Transylvain, le Turc , et le Hongrois.
Au lieu de deux j'en ai rencontré trois :
Il est assez de cette marchandise.
De nul d'eux n'est souvent la province conquise :
Un quart Voleur survient, qui les accorde net
En se saisissant du Baudet.
09 July 2016, 20:18
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To the followers of the Caporal: what do you think and say about this man when he goes licking the boots of the S3oodis???
