Report: Aoun Boycotts Bkirki over al-Rahi's Rhetoric
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Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun was absent from the Easter mass that was led by Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday amid reports on a rift between the two over the ongoing presidential vacuum.
The mass, which was held in Bkirki, was attended by former Presidents Michel Suleiman and Amin Gemayel, who is the head of the Kataeb party.
Aoun didn't also visit Bkirki to extend his greetings to al-Rahi like his old-time rival Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea, who met with the Patriarch at the seat of the Maronite church on Holy Friday.
MP Hikmat Deeb, who is loyal to the Change and Reform bloc led by Aoun, denied in comments published in al-Liwaa newspaper on Tuesday that the FPM chief is reacting to al-Rahi's statements by boycotting Bkirki.
On Monday, al-Rahi expressed regret that the parliament is paralyzed due to the actions of a certain political team.
Al-Rahi also denounced in his Easter message on Friday the ongoing vacuum in the presidency, urging political powers to hold the polls and end their boycott of the electoral sessions.
“There are no constitutional justifications for the boycott of the elections,” he said, noting that the vacuum has created a “political death” in Lebanon and crippled the government and the parliament.
Suleiman's term ended in May without the election of a successor as the ongoing disputes between the rival March 8 and 14 camps have thwarted the polls.
Aoun's Change and Reform and Hizbullah's Loyalty to the Resistance blocs have been boycotting the elections, demanding that political powers agree on a compromise presidential candidate.
Only few MPs have been attending the sessions. The next electoral session is scheduled for April 22.
Meanwhile, Aoun contacted Geagea on Monday night to extend his greetings to him on the occasion of Easter after the LF leader sent the FPM chief a gift with his envoy Melhem Riachi for the same purpose.
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07 April 2015, 08:21
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FT = the most informative poster this site has ever seen by a country mile
No wonder his posts are removed within minutes of them being posted.
07 April 2015, 08:25
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Bkirki should be more forthcoming with its positions regarding current events. We can no longer tolerate mediocre stances and vague positions. The people know and both political and religious leaders have a duty to convey what's already known. Failure to do so will make them accountable and history will judge them as indecisive and accomplices in the demise of democracy in Lebanon.
07 April 2015, 10:38
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The Caporal is a dog to Ebola, Syria and Iran. He is destroying the Christians for the next 100 years.
07 April 2015, 13:01
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How mighty glad I am that Aoun the jester claoun did not attend the Easter mass because if he did, he would have cast ill-luck to the nation and the people. The fact that he did not attend means that we are blessed from high above for the year to come. Aoun apparently has been sponged out by the Geneva negotiations, thankfully the world has sobered up that there are more than enough idiots ruling several nations, adding one more idiot to lead a country so sensitive as Lebanon would spell disaster for us and all the region. As I look up the sky, I do see some ominous signs of better days to come for Lebanon, soon. What looks even more ominous is this, that old man Aoun will end his days at Deyr El Salib filling up his time by singing an old son from Gérard Lenorman, "Si j'etais president de la republique". O How I'd love the sight of his profoundly deceived partisans queuing up to visit their vegetative caporal.
07 April 2015, 15:10
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remember when homo hakeem boycotted bkerki and you were cheering him up? lulz @homo M14ers
07 April 2015, 18:54
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Lebanese Christian political leadership in Lebanon is morally bankrupt. A new president, if there ever will be a new president, needs to emerge from the Lebanese Expatriate Community. We need someone who is untainted by internal Lebanese politics.
07 April 2015, 22:05
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And this is the tantrum-prone infant that some want to be President of Lebanon? Wlik smallah 3alaykom!
