Report: Saudi Arabia Pushed for Franjieh's Nomination
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Contacts are ongoing between Saudi Arabia and Iran over the political deadlock in Lebanon, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Tuesday.
A political source told the daily that Saudi Arabia has played a main role in the nomination of Marada Movement leader MP Suleiman Franjieh as president.
It is part of efforts to resolve regional crises, starting with Lebanon, it explained.
Franjieh emerged as a candidate following talks with Mustaqbal Movement leader MP Saad Hariri a few weeks ago.
Lebanon has been without a president since May 2014 when the term of Michel Suleiman ended without the election of a successor.
Ongoing disputes between the rival March 8 and 14 camps over a compromise candidate have thwarted the polls.
Saudi Arabia has repeatedly said that it does not meddle in Lebanon's internal affairs, but would support a candidate who enjoys the support of the majority of the political powers.
M.T.
D.A.
22 December 2015, 11:44
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no country is truly independent, not even saudis who must bow to US orders, and not even the US who bows to the oil/military/israeli lobbies and others... but we can chose our allies and those we rely on. and saudis are definitely not the best ones for us.
22 December 2015, 12:09
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You probably know this subject very well since you bow entirely, completely and totally to Iran...
22 December 2015, 12:28
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and how does that bowing to iran translate into facts? iran never harmed lebanon and never asked anything from its people, especially not any bowing. there is mutual support and mutual respect between iran and hezbollah like the likes of you who live in slavery and delusion will never know.
22 December 2015, 12:43
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"mutual respect between iran and hezbollah "
nicely said, good you reminded that iran is only interested in hezbollah its low servant, and not in Lebanon....
but hezbollah pledged allegiance to iran never to Lebanon....
22 December 2015, 13:27
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yes i chose my words carefully, but as usual you failed to understand them.
there is indeed mutual respect between hezbollah and iran, and not between lebanon and iran.
the reason for that is that there is respect from iran to lebanon, visible in every statement and action they make, every offer of support, every statement and every action, but there is no respect from lebanon to iran, because still a large portion of pawns like you were bred to bark at iran constantly and be ungrateful for everything while licking saudi shoes even as they pee on you.
22 December 2015, 14:03
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are you really going to try to make us believe you're not pro-saudi? you might be too ashamed to openly say it, but you never miss a chance to praise them, support their puppets, and puke all your hatred at those they designate for you. a dog at least has love for his masters, you don't, but you still obey and bark on demand.
22 December 2015, 14:11
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"you might be too ashamed to openly say it, but you never miss a chance to praise them"
really? oh! you know me better than i do... can you tell me when do i praise this country that has nothing to envy iran?
see still writing in binary mode, you cannot help it as your brain has limited functions....
pityfull mooowaten still wanting to see what he wants to see...
i pity you, really....but then again you hezbis are raised that way...
22 December 2015, 14:11
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@mowaten E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T. Still laughing since the day you declared with a straight face you were a shiaa atheist and also a member of hezbollah with only one account. I think i will also continue to laugh at your statement " there is mutual support and mutual respect between iran and hezbollah ". Thank you Thank you
22 December 2015, 14:24
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i keep showing you where ya peace, but you never want to see it, so keep writing that endless prose and a make a treatise on "binary thinking" while you're at it, think i care?
22 December 2015, 15:14
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disagree mowaten... many countries are influenced or pressured by lobbies and foreign governments but not all are slaves like the Lebanese! the PM of Australia is not appointed like in Lebanon. Yes they visit Murdoch so that his News Corp empire doesn't turn against them but he doesnt appoint or choose the next PM. Lebanon's President has been appointed by foreign powers after Franjieh in 1970! We are truly pawns! Our president is a pawn and the people of Lebanon are Pawns of a Pawn!
22 December 2015, 15:23
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fair enough ado, but the way i see it everybody is a pawn to somebody. don't forget pawns can win games, and sometimes survive the king ;)
22 December 2015, 15:47
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yes true... but i wish that one day we can be the king or queen of our own destiny instead of always the figging pawn!
22 December 2015, 12:44
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now M8ers will say that franjieh is a saudi agent LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
22 December 2015, 14:10
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no, but i will say again what i said before, and that you failed to understand:
nominating franjieh was a scheme by the saudi-owned side in lebanon, to try to divide m8 by instigating rivalry between a pro-aoun camp and a pro-franjieh camp. but like everything m14 tries, it failed and backfired, causing an internal divide in m14, between the fake doctor and the carpet sellers.
22 December 2015, 14:15
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oh! in case our brain still malfunctions: i am not for geagea, not for franjieh , not for aoun... ok?
i am not for M14 neither M8... understood?
but if franjieh wants to be candidate then you M8ers are playing the saudi game as he entered that scheme as you put it ... and once again you re telling us that M8 is too weak to counter this!!! otherwise your bashar friend would not run against hezbi choice!!! LOL at you.
22 December 2015, 14:29
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funny how you who are not pro m14, still took personally my comment that was directed strictly at m14.
22 December 2015, 14:34
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oh! really? then why is it a post answering mine? can't live without me? pityful mooowaten the wati...
stop deflecting when you are wrong, typical escape from gutless people...
22 December 2015, 15:38
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your comment is irrelevant. i answered your question in a way directed against m14, not against you, but you took it personally. just re-read above if you need, i have nothing more to add here.
22 December 2015, 16:16
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"hohoho" didnt insult you, read his comment again if you need. you however address me in all sorts of childish insults ("pityful mooowaten the wati..." for instance), so you're really not in position to lecture anyone about insults.
22 December 2015, 18:01
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oh no ya pitiful peace the wati, it is not an insult, it is an observation.
22 December 2015, 15:18
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Unfortunately in Lebanon, Foreign powers usually get something from their support of a politician! Nothing new or either will it be the last time! I hope I'm wrong and Suliman Frangieh hasn't sold his soul, just as his grandfather refused to sell out Lebanon to the Palestinians!
I hope all the min christian leaders can agree on a President that has the support of the muslims parties! Otherwise a military coup to force them all for the sake of the Republic of Lebanon! "A message to the world!"
22 December 2015, 15:32
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sure military coups always improved the countries in which they happened... review your history and wish for anything but a military coup! LOLLLLL
22 December 2015, 15:41
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France, Spain, Turkey and even Lebanon has had military coups that have improved their countries... review history! Problem is only when they refuse to transition back to civilian rule! If the Military hands back power in a organised way then yes it has and can work! Syria, egypt, burma and libya are examples of when the military refuses to return power and then yes that is something we should all wish never happens! But Lebanon is a nation were democracy and oppression can never last!
22 December 2015, 15:41
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Fiji, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore just to add to the list!
22 December 2015, 15:57
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assad improved syria? yes, by stealing Lebanon for 30 years...
(dixit aoun in case you say i am a liar or say that aoun is a liar too...)
22 December 2015, 16:15
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point is a successful political coup is one that transitions back relatively peacefully.
22 December 2015, 16:10
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So, this is the Christian President?? Nominated by and elected by Saudi Arabia and Iran?? The Shia-Sunni Compromise Candidate??
And if it were Aoun, he is a "Christian President"? Nominated by Iran and Hezbollah, both entities which have a long range strategy of draining the Middle East and Lebanon of her Christian population??
22 December 2015, 16:11
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The power of any public official is derived from the source of that power. In America, it comes from the people who elect the official and is therefore legitimate in a self-governing society such as ours.
In Lebanon, if the power comes from KSA and Iran, then the public official is beholding to those who put him into power in how he exercises that power. How is this a Christian President. It is Christian in name only.
22 December 2015, 16:13
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if he were a real president elected only from lebanese then they would all go to parliament and choose among a list of christian candidates and stop procrastinating...
but they all pretend to be "democratic" while they just work for their own interests...
22 December 2015, 17:56
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Beirut, not my intention to give u an american lesson but only highlight the obvious holes in the Taef accord! The President once was able to sack the PM and government... now the president is nothing! Whether u like or hate Aoun, he was right... This new constitution allows this vacuum. Previously the President would appoint a caretaker pm/president that could dissolve the cabinet and force the parliament to elect a president... now there can not be such an appointment and the PM can rule indefinitely with the same thieving MPs that only vote for their extension! Now the MPs can extend their own parliamentary term! This is a parliamentary coup! so why cant the military restore the real republic through a military coup? People are sick of a MPS that can only agree to extend their own terms but not resolve the trash crisis!
22 December 2015, 16:14
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Does the Vatican nominate the Sunni Prime Minister?? or the Shia Speaker of the Parliament?? Does the US or France? No. But the Christian president is selected in Tehran and Riyadh and this is supposed to make the Christians feel secure in Lebanon!
22 December 2015, 19:02
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Aussie, there is nothing in the Constitution as amended by the Taif Accord that gives Parliament the power to extend its own mandate. This is an invention of Mr. Berri that the others agreed to because it served their own interests, as it served Berri's interest to do so.
The Taif Amendments to the Lebanese Constitution are the worst possible outcome for the Lebanese Christians, except for all of the rest of the solutions posed by others to change the sectarian formulas in Taif.
22 December 2015, 19:05
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The corruption in Lebanon is rampant. There is no check on the political elites from stealing from the State at will, as the State is laid bare and prone to the ravages of its own political class. Aoun was supposed to come in to reform all of this corruption, but instead his real purpose was to become the new king of the corruption and in the process he has accelerated the decline of the state. So whether I like Aoun or not, is not relevant. He remains absolutely wrong with all of his suggestions since none serve Lebanon. They all serve Aoun which causes his adversaries to abandon service to Lebanon so that they too can serve themselves. It is a downward spiral that Aoun has accelerated.
22 December 2015, 21:10
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Yes Tex, it is part of the paralysis imposed on the system by the cancer called Hezbollah. Not just the Constitutional council but all parts of the Lebanese state are strangled and existing in a state of animated suspension until the scourge of Hezbollah and its enablers (FPM, Marada etc) is lifted off of the Lebanese body politic.
