Jumblat Seeks to Bridge Gap between al-Mustaqbal and Amal-Hizbullah Alliance
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat is seeking to bridge the gap between ex-PM Saad Hariri’s al-Mustaqbal movement and the two main Shiite parties Amal and Hizbullah.
A minister close to Jumblat told al-Liwaa daily published Saturday that Jumblat, through his meetings in Lebanon and abroad, is seeking to revive contacts between al-Mustaqbal as the main representative of Sunnis in Lebanon and both Amal and Hizbullah.
“Contacts should not remain cut because this is unprecedented in Lebanese political life,” the minister said.
He unveiled that during Jumblat’s latest phone conversation with Hariri, the officials touched on the issue of reviving contacts. The minister refused to unveil whether the two men would meet upon Hariri’s return to Beirut from France.
But media reports said that the telephone conversation came to compensate a meeting that was scheduled to be held between the Druze leader and the Mustaqbal chief in a European capital but was cancelled the last minute.
Meanwhile, Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is scheduled to make a speech on Tuesday on the occasion of the party’s victory in the 2006 war against Israel.
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