Report: Aoun’s Bkirki Remarks an ‘Outcry to All’ Political Parties
Circles close to President Michel Aoun insisted on “expanding the list of the accused” that the President intended to blame for the government delay, refusing reports that he was “exclusively” pointing a finger at Hizbullah or a the group of pro-Hizbullah Sunni MPs, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Thursday.
The sources said the remarks Aoun made from Bkirki were “a resounding cry in the face of more than one team that seeks to change the constitutional norms when forming governments, and attempts to impose new mechanisms that were not mentioned in the constitution, which limited the task to the PM-designate in charge in coordination with the President.”
On Tuesday, as he took part in a Christmas Day Mass in Bkirki, Aoun accused some parties of seeking to create “new norms” for the formation of governments in Lebanon.
“A political battle is behind the failure to form a government and it seems that there is a change in traditions and norms. We are living a cabinet formation crisis. Pray so that the difficulties can be resolve,” Aoun had said.
The formation of Lebanon’s government has been delayed since the designation of PM-designate Saad Hariri in May 24.
Disagreements between political parties over cabinet shares and quotas the latest was a dispute with Hizbullah and a grouping of six Sunni MPs over the nomination of a Sunni minister by the aforementioned bloc.
The dispute has been delaying the formation of the new government for several months now after previous and also long-running disagreements over Christian and Druze representation were resolved.
Source: Naharnet
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