Miqati to Run for Elections, Appreciates Saudi Will to Nominate him for Premiership
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Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miaqati expressed gratitude to Saudi Arabia for its willingness to nominate him to form the new cabinet, assuring that he will run for the 2013 parliamentary elections, al-Akhbar daily quoted him as saying.
“Saudi Arabia wanted to name me to form the new cabinet, but (ex-PM Saad) Hariri declined,” he told the paper in an interview on Saturday, adding that he will run for the upcoming polls, but is currently waiting for an electoral law to be approved and adopted.
The rival parties have so far failed to agree on an electoral draft-law after the leaders and representatives of the Free Patriotic Movement, the Lebanese Forces, the Phalange Party and the Marada Movement agreed to suspend the so-called Orthodox Gathering proposal on Monday, leaving the door open for rival MPs to strike a deal on a new electoral draft-law.
The proposal, which had been severely rejected by centrist Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat's bloc, considers Lebanon a single district and allows each sect to vote for its own MPs under a proportional presentational system.
Miqati, where the majority of his cabinet was represented by the March 8 alliance, denounced reports that he failed to rule properly during his tenure in order not to provoke his opponents.
“Governing is based on balance, that is why I played the role of the al-Mustaqbal Movement and the March 14 alliance in the cabinet. If the majority of the government was of the March 14 I would have taken the role of March 8 to achieve equilibrium,” he pointed out.
The resignation of Miqati in March came hours after President Michel Suleiman suspended cabinet sessions for failing to pass a decision on the formation of an elections committee to supervise the upcoming parliamentary polls.
The caretaker PM said he is proud of the cabinet's achievements, blaming the situation in Lebanon and the region for delaying further accomplishments.
Miqati's cabinet was formed in 2011, with the March 8 alliance as the majority, after the national unity government of al-Mustaqbal movement leader Hariri was toppled.
06 April 2013, 13:23
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Seems like a fair, solid & honest man, maybe he will be good for Lebanon after all, achieve law & order, put pressure on parties to stick to the dissociation policy, protest against syrian bombings of Lebanon, keep Hezbollah weapons in check & pointing south, would not mind him as the next long term PM
06 April 2013, 14:33
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I couldent care less who supports him, you and the idiots are so blinded by your hate for sunnis that whenever the word saudi is mentioned you start chucking tantrums, i wouldn't care if both iran & saudi nominated him or supported him, point is, we need a PM who can deal fairly with all parties & reduce tension while putting lebanon first
06 April 2013, 14:55
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Of course this is chocking. But tell me Mowaten it does not chock you when Assad nominated the president and the pm? It does not chock you when HA send Ayoub planes onto Israel because Iran asked so? It does not chock you when Lebanese fighters in HA are asked by Iran to go and fight in Syria and get killed there?
06 April 2013, 17:32
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Mowaten you admit than there is a wrong there. I am definitely not saying two wrong make one right. I agree with you that it is choking that Saudis nominate a PM. My point is that you are selective in your arguments. When it suits your political stance than it is ok that a foreign country control what is going on in Lebanon, in your case Syria and Iran. But you find it choking that Saudi Arabia meddles in Lebanese politics. All I am saying is that we should let no foreign country meddle into our politics.
06 April 2013, 13:30
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"...Appreciates Saudi Will to Nominate him for Premiership"
Why should it matter what the kingdom of terrorism wants or wills? Is Lebanon a part of Saudi Arabia that we didn't know about, or somehow run by the terrorist Al Saud clan? Whoever bows down to Saudi hegemony should be tried for treason. Lebanon will NEVER become a Saudi-Wahabi satellite state and the true Lebanese patriots will resist Saudi dominance by ANY and ALL means necessary.
No to Arabism! No to Wahabism! No to terrorism!
06 April 2013, 14:43
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See karim, the reason why everybody thinks you are a joke is because of this, Is Iran also a broken kingdom of terrorist? albeit a bankrupt one
06 April 2013, 14:29
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I can't believe my eyes! A Lebanese PM expressing gratitude to a foreign country for nominating him to run his country's government. This is as insulting and low as it gets. Ya 3ayb el shoom 3leik ou 3a kéll yelle metlak ya Miqati.
06 April 2013, 17:40
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What do you expect from Mikati. In the first place how come he accepted to be PM when he had zero margin to do anything and at the end he had to resign. What has he achieved? Nothing but choking the lebanese economy. And now he is saying thank you to Saudis. May be he is looking to strike some business deal.
06 April 2013, 14:54
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The funny part is that NOT ONE Lebanese had the will to nominate him, except for the worm Walid Jumblat. But then Jumblat claims to be a Kurd! Whatever!
07 April 2013, 00:37
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I Am shocked and angry that KSA nominates a Lebanese PM, I am equally shocked and angry when Syria/Iran or anyone appoints any Lebanese official for anything. I am also shocked when a single Lebanese is not equally dismayed when they hear such things regardless of which camp they belong to. Whatever happened to have dignity and national honor.
