Hariri stressed his support to PM Salam, warns of attempts to ‘topple the government’

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saad haririFormer Lebanese prime minister and Future Movement  leader MP  Saad Hariri on Sunday stressed his support for the stances expressed by Prime Minister Tammam Salam in the wake of Saturday’s violence during the peaceful  protests and warned  of attempts to “topple the government.”

Condemning “any form of extreme security measures in facing peaceful protests,” Hariri cautioned in a statement against “attempts to drag the country into chaos and the unknown.”

He  noted that the mission of the government is to “reinforce security and stability and manage the affairs of the state until the problem of the presidential vacancy, which has been going on for over a year, is resolved.”

“This vacancy reflected negatively on the path of the state as a whole and on the work of the government and its tasks of managing public affairs and meeting the needs of people,” said Hariri.

He added: “We admit that there is a deficiency in resolving a national crisis that is affecting every village and city in Lebanon, but protesting against the garbage crisis and demanding a fast solution to it is one thing, and demanding to topple the government and the system is another thing.”

He  warned that “toppling the government means toppling the last legitimate stronghold and taking Lebanon into the unknown.”

“We will not allow the collapse of Lebanon and its legitimacy, and we stress at the same time that the garbage crisis will not remain captive of political disputes; it will find realistic solutions in the coming days,” Hariri pledged.

Earlier on Sunday, Salam said he was ready to meet with protesters, admitting that “excessive force” had been used against the demonstrators.

Protesters headed back to downtown  Beirut on Sunday morning, joining those who had spent the night there in tents after evening protests spiraled into clashes with security forces that left more than 50 You Stink protesters injured.

Protests in recent weeks have called for a comprehensive solution to Lebanon’s trash crisis, which has seen piles of garbage  growing in Beirut and elsewhere since the country’s largest landfill shut down on July 17.

The You Stink protesters demanded that PM Salam   should submit his resignation at once and also   called for a massive demonstration at 6:00 pm.

Progressive Socialist Party chief MP Walid Jumblatt ( who ordered all PSP participants in the protest to withdraw and who is famous for saying in 2004“I would rather be a garbage man in New York than a political leader in today’s Lebanon”) ,  also voiced his support to the You Stink activists but  warned them about the possibility that their cause is being hijacked by opportunists :

“Be wary of the forces of obstruction attempting to take advantage of this movement, particularly the forces that have obstructed the presidential elections, then the parliament, and now the Cabinet. This will harm domestic stability as well as the rightful demands of the people,” he said, noting that he was keen on preserving civil peace at any price.

He was reportedly  referring  to FPM and its leader MP Michel Aoun who has been reportedly obstructing the presidential elections, the parliament and the Cabinet along with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group.

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23 responses to “Hariri stressed his support to PM Salam, warns of attempts to ‘topple the government’”

  1. Fauzia45 Avatar

    The best solution first is to elect a president for the country!!!!

    1. Patience2 Avatar
      Patience2

      One having no connection to either the ‘Hizbu- or Irano- Shaitan’.

      1. What about Saudi shitan? Your too funny.

        1. Anti ISIS Avatar
          Anti ISIS

          No no dateam, Saudi’s are peaceful people. They are even considering letting woman drive cars.

          1. William Petro Avatar
            William Petro

            saudis are evil pure evil, just ask the people of yemen!

          2. Patience2 Avatar
            Patience2

            Ask the Houthis??

          3. MekensehParty Avatar
            MekensehParty

            Said the lunatics walking on the streets of Isfahan spraying women with acid…

          4. Patience2 Avatar
            Patience2

            Might Hind be the first to try driving alone??

          5. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Leave me out of this, i don’t drive.

    2. MekensehParty Avatar
      MekensehParty

      Who’s going to elect such a president? The present parliament that shat on democracy when it renewed for itself? A direct vote of the people after the country has been cleaned from people with a grain of intelligence to be replaced by brainwashed hinds and farqs?
      The only realistic solution (unfortunately) is through fire, and that’s what’s coming.

  2. Michaelinlondon1234 Avatar
    Michaelinlondon1234

    A peaceful protest is marching… not throwing stones at people, Not hitting people, Not damaging other peoples property, or throwing Molotov. And I am talking about the protesters.
    You have made your protest and point….
    Now do you want to push this in to war? And we have all seen where that goes.

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      That’s how “they” started Syria revolution.. Sukhkleen is based in Saudi Arabia (partly by Hariri) who enjoys relations with McCain.

      1. Patience2 Avatar
        Patience2

        I’m not really either pro or con Sukleen, but, why not renew the contract?? You know, WHY ‘drown in garbage’?

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          Pro or con Shu Kleen?…Humm..ask them..er.. who to renew the contract?
          Did you read my article above or you’re just square-head Mekhhh Hind obsessed messenger here.

          ..” the current deluge of trash even more aptly symbolises the essence of a country built on vast inequality – a true indicator of systemic filth. Just under the much-vaunted cosmopolitan image of Lebanon, and especially Beirut, lurks a fetid set-up in which sectarian elite bank on the politico-financial oppression of the general population in order to maintain their profitable stranglehold on power..(..)

          1. Patience2 Avatar
            Patience2

            Yes, and thanks for your detailed and accurate explanation, I HAVE learned from what you’ve said. Knowing this, I just wonder if solving one problem at a time might not be better? Pay the ‘garbage ransom’ and then keep working on the political answer. With the garbage as it is, you invite a plague!

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Who will pay the ransom??? Jumbalayatt?:l)

          3. Patience2 Avatar
            Patience2

            No … whoever paid previously, if you can catch them.

          4. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            “Among the maligned foreign worker contingent are Soo-kleen employees from Bangladesh and elsewhere, whose efforts to keep Beirut clean have traditionally been met with honks and curses from motorists apparently upset that the garbage disposal process cannot take place instantaneously and “invisibly”. Rich Lebanese are snub

          5. Patience2 Avatar
            Patience2

            Maybe this little scene will serve as a wakeup call to those horn-honkers … now they’ll know just how lucky they are when things ARE working!

      2. MekensehParty Avatar
        MekensehParty

        Your meds hind, don’t forget your meds…

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          You’re forgetting yours, Mekhhh…

  3. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    “it will find realistic solutions in the coming days,” Hariri pledged.” ….. a year after promising to rebuild homes of Tripolians blasted and burned out of theirs. A LOT of ‘coming days’ ….

  4. MekensehParty Avatar
    MekensehParty

    “attempts to drag the country into chaos and the unknown.”

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