Protests across Lebanon against Hezbollah’s coup, in pictures
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An angry protester, reacts as they burn tyres with other protesters to block the highway link to south Lebanon, near the village of Barja, Lebanon, Monday, Jan. 24, 2011
Protests broke out across Lebanon on Monday following the first day of the premiership consultations after Hezbollah appears to have engineered what was branded as a ” coup” to control the next Lebanese government .
Hezbollah appears to have secured the support from a majority of parliament Monday to nominate its candidate former PM Najib Mikati for prime minister, putting the Iranian and Syrian-backed militant group in position to control Lebanon.
The following pictures are courtesy of Reuters:
An angry protester shouts slogans during a protest in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Jan. 24, 2011. Large sections of the capital Beirut were tense and supporters of Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri took to the streets. Sunni lawmakers have called for a 'day of rage' throughout Lebanon Tuesday to protest gains by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. Supporter of Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri carries a banner during a demonstration calling for Hariri to remain as prime minister and form a new government, in front of the grave of Lebanon's assassinated former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, in downtown Beirut January 24, 2011. Lebanese supporters of caretaker Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri carry a banner with his picture as they shout slogans in front of burnt tires during a protest in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, calling for him to remain as Prime Minister and form the new government, January 24, 2011. Lebanese soldiers stand in front of burnt tires lit by supporters of Lebanon's caretaker Saad al-Hariri and blocking a main road from southern Lebanon to Beirut during a protest calling for Hariri to remain as Prime Minister and form the new government, at Barja area, southern Lebanon January 24, 2011Supporters of Lebanon's caretaker Saad al-Hariri carry a banner during a protest calling for Hariri to remain as Prime Minister and form the new government, in front of the grave of Lebanon's assassinated former prime minister Rafik al-Hariri in downtown Beirut, January 24, 2011.Supporters of Lebanon's caretaker PM Saad al-Hariri carry banners during a protest calling for Hariri to remain as Prime Minister and form the new government , January 24, 2011.
51 responses to “Protests across Lebanon against Hezbollah’s coup, in pictures”
Beiruti
Lebanon has broke my heart, throughout my whole life. How is this fair? Hezbollah makes the government collapse, now they bring it up with their power. So im wondering who does the army belong to now? Well during the next 2 weeks it will be secterian strife between sunni-shia sadly. Christians do not get involved theres only couple of us left in the Middle East, 10 million in Eygpt, 1 Million in Lebanon, 100000 in Iraq. As for everyone let these dogs (HA, Syria, Iran) die in hell, the filth that they have brought to this earth, in the end Hezbollah may have the stregth, but Justice Will Serve. No criminals get away, when the inditment is anounced and people wake up and know 100% that iran, HA ,Syria killed the man who rebuilt this country. People will be discusted, If hezbollah takes over the country it will be without one Sunni, Druze, Christian left on the soil. And let the shi’ites enjoy this country and turn in into a slum like their south, let them have so many kids that there wont be enough room in the country to support their population, and probably impose Sharia Law, and we all know what that has done just look at Iran and you dont even need to ask yourself any questions. Sadly this world never has its justice served United States couldn’t care less about this matter, Lebanon has no benefit for the United States so the U.S will not give 2 Sh!ts about Lebanon. Israel does not care, they will not do anything because they need a reason to stay against Lebanon, no one wants Israel anyways we all know what they do they kill civilians and make lies, etc. Currently Iran and Syria are happy, Iran has a finger stretched across the middle east controlling Lebanon with their Farsi A$$es, Iran= Biggest sissies on this Earth, they talk Sh!t that they’re going to abolish Israel, they didn’t make one move yet, just a buncha sh!t talkers. As usual Syria remains filled with corruption and dirt, always jealous that Lebanon was never part of Syria they’re leaders. A not really largely publicized story but the Syrians killed 20000 in Hama in a muslim brotherhood rising, so you can understand the filth of this country, they massacred their own people, so imagine what they could do to the Lebanese people, infacts they already killed enough Lebanese, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! We must stop being manipulated by Syria they killed enough of us from 1975-2005 they stepped on OUR PEOPLE! Now war is going to happen, Syria will enter again, Iran will send their arms. But how about the Christians and Sunnis no ones reaching out not KSA, US, ISR, and we all know they dont have enough wepaons (arm dealing) to fight 1/4 of Hezbollahs army. So were kinda F@#KED here. What Do you guys say?
I am an American and I hope with all my heart that when the fighting starts the vast majority of the US trained Lebanese officer Corp convinces the bulk of the army to fight against Hezbollah and in support of true democracy and freedom then the US and other western and secular middle eastern powers will give you all the bullets that you need.
I agree i hope our country supports lebanon with more than just words but obama is a pussy i doubt he will help. hezbollah are a bunch of thugs i hope israel destroys them and syria too.
Israel are just as guilty of corrupting Lebanon as is Syria. It’s not black or white…it’s not Israel/US or Syria/Iran who are either innocent or guilty; they BOTH play a key role in the destruction of Lebanon
Israel are just as guilty of corrupting Lebanon as is Syria. It’s not black or white…it’s not Israel/US or Syria/Iran who are either innocent or guilty; they BOTH play a key role in the destruction of Lebanon
I hope you do, but Obama is not a man of his word, ive been looking at America lately, and he doesnt even keep his word to the American people. George W Bush was a terrible president but i think he was more conceerned about the middle east which was a good thing
i think the army will break up along sectarian lines if told to fight, and i think a large number, actually a majority, of the christian army officers are march 8 supporters.
Lets hope not otherwise 650 million dollars went down the drain. I read somewhere that the US has two carriers with 210 plane and 30 other vessels with a 5,800 man MEU plus other marine forces off the coast of Lebanon. It is probably just a show of force but what a force.
stay positive i think march 14 mp’s should resign from parliamant and force new elections. mikati will lose his seat in tripoli and almost all of jumblatts mp’s and maaybe jumblatt himself will lose his seat to a march 14 candidate. also im not sure the christian or sunnis could or would be able to fight hezbollah, but if they druze help they are good fighters, they havent forgot may 7 2008 events and most druze are not with jumblatts stance, they support 14 march.
Many Druze are planning on not follwing Jumblatt, many of the Druze now consider him a traitor to his father Kamal. He sided with Syria, the country that killed his father.
if fighting breaks out it wont last long the sunni and march 14 christrian dont have capable militias, so hezbollah actually has no one to fight. the druze militia fought hezbolla to a draw in may 2008 but not jumblatt sided with hezbollah.
if fighting breaks out it wont last long the sunni and march 14 christrian dont have capable militias, so hezbollah actually has no one to fight. the druze militia fought hezbolla to a draw in may 2008 but not jumblatt sided with hezbollah.
Hi Beiruti,
May I speak for my country? (but please let’s keep it respectful)
Because I think you see the picture wrongly regarding Israel. Really. Every Israeli will tell you that the last thing they want to do is to kill innocent Lebanese nor innocent Palestinian. Yes, we all know civilians got killed in 2006, but we know, here in Israel that we tried to attack HA, which was cynically firing thousands of rockets into northern Israel from civil areas, which put the civilians on danger. we droped millions of warning papers at these areas before attacked (something that I don’t think any army does for the enemy population).
Besides, you wrote “they will not do anything because they need a reason to stay against Lebanon” – what do you expect us to do? do you really think we can help you without fighting HA? do you think fighting HA can be clean fight with no civili casualties? eliminating HA power is our dream, because we know it will bring peace to (a free) Lebanon and Israel. but when HA fights so cynically from civil areas, civilians get killed, and the world push us to a ceasefire with no achivment except stronger HA.. Why do you think the IDF attacked easy-to-rebuild runaway in the airport and not the terminal? no, I don’t want you to say “thanks!” but I want you to understand that desperation and hate, for the Lebanese, are definitely not our intentions. think logically – why will we need any reason “to be against Lebanon”? why? isn’t ridiculous to think that a country with freedom of speech and free and powerful left-wing press which attack the government always, will have such a support (90%) for a war against “the Switzerland of the Middle-East”? even the hard Israeli left-wingers know, that the only problem with that war was that we weren’t ready enough to fight it…
It’s funny to read that Lebanese think we try to find reasons against them, when their government always try to attack us on the ridiculous things like well-known borders, gas discover on our side (even by the maps Lebanon gave the UN…) and even Humus (which we never clained to be Israeli)…
Hi Beiruti,
May I speak for my country? (but please let’s keep it respectful)
Because I think you see the picture wrongly regarding Israel. Really. Every Israeli will tell you that the last thing they want to do is to kill innocent Lebanese nor innocent Palestinian. Yes, we all know civilians got killed in 2006, but we know, here in Israel that we tried to attack HA, which was cynically firing thousands of rockets into northern Israel from civil areas, which put the civilians on danger. we droped millions of warning papers at these areas before attacked (something that I don’t think any army does for the enemy population).
Besides, you wrote “they will not do anything because they need a reason to stay against Lebanon” – what do you expect us to do? do you really think we can help you without fighting HA? do you think fighting HA can be clean fight with no civili casualties? eliminating HA power is our dream, because we know it will bring peace to (a free) Lebanon and Israel. but when HA fights so cynically from civil areas, civilians get killed, and the world push us to a ceasefire with no achivment except stronger HA.. Why do you think the IDF attacked easy-to-rebuild runaway in the airport and not the terminal? no, I don’t want you to say “thanks!” but I want you to understand that desperation and hate, for the Lebanese, are definitely not our intentions. think logically – why will we need any reason “to be against Lebanon”? why? isn’t ridiculous to think that a country with freedom of speech and free and powerful left-wing press which attack the government always, will have such a support (90%) for a war against “the Switzerland of the Middle-East”? even the hard Israeli left-wingers know, that the only problem with that war was that we weren’t ready enough to fight it…
It’s funny to read that Lebanese think we try to find reasons against them, when their government always try to attack us on the ridiculous things like well-known borders, gas discover on our side (even by the maps Lebanon gave the UN…) and even Humus (which we never clained to be Israeli)…
Lebanon will not rest until Syrian regime is doomed, taken out, abolished, and there masters are put on trial and in prison. This regime is the making of the former Soviet Union that created this secret service regime.
Shame on the Syrians people that they still accept this corrupted regime as their leader to run their life for 40 years form father to son, regardless of their domination. Shame on you!
Lebanon will not rest until Syrian regime is doomed, taken out, abolished, and there masters are put on trial and in prison. This regime is the making of the former Soviet Union that created this secret service regime.
Shame on the Syrians people that they still accept this corrupted regime as their leader to run their life for 40 years form father to son, regardless of their domination. Shame on you!
You aree right AMERICA does not give a shit about Lebanon. We are sick to death of rabid Islamic dogs foaming at the mouth yelling death! The entire Middle East will soon be ablzae because Islam is a house of vile evil that is addicted to death and hatred. You made your beds now lie in them. I could care less about such evil people.
You aree right AMERICA does not give a shit about Lebanon. We are sick to death of rabid Islamic dogs foaming at the mouth yelling death! The entire Middle East will soon be ablzae because Islam is a house of vile evil that is addicted to death and hatred. You made your beds now lie in them. I could care less about such evil people.
Lebanon has broke my heart, throughout my whole life. How is this fair? Hezbollah makes the government collapse, now they bring it up with their power. So im wondering who does the army belong to now? Well during the next 2 weeks it will be secterian strife between sunni-shia sadly. Christians do not get involved theres only couple of us left in the Middle East, 10 million in Eygpt, 1 Million in Lebanon, 100000 in Iraq. As for everyone let these dogs (HA, Syria, Iran) die in hell, the filth that they have brought to this earth, in the end Hezbollah may have the stregth, but Justice Will Serve. No criminals get away, when the inditment is anounced and people wake up and know 100% that iran, HA ,Syria killed the man who rebuilt this country. People will be discusted, If hezbollah takes over the country it will be without one Sunni, Druze, Christian left on the soil. And let the shi’ites enjoy this country and turn in into a slum like their south, let them have so many kids that there wont be enough room in the country to support their population, and probably impose Sharia Law, and we all know what that has done just look at Iran and you dont even need to ask yourself any questions. Sadly this world never has its justice served United States couldn’t care less about this matter, Lebanon has no benefit for the United States so the U.S will not give 2 Sh!ts about Lebanon. Israel does not care, they will not do anything because they need a reason to stay against Lebanon, no one wants Israel anyways we all know what they do they kill civilians and make lies, etc. Currently Iran and Syria are happy, Iran has a finger stretched across the middle east controlling Lebanon with their Farsi A$$es, Iran= Biggest sissies on this Earth, they talk Sh!t that they’re going to abolish Israel, they didn’t make one move yet, just a buncha sh!t talkers. As usual Syria remains filled with corruption and dirt, always jealous that Lebanon was never part of Syria they’re leaders. A not really largely publicized story but the Syrians killed 20000 in Hama in a muslim brotherhood rising, so you can understand the filth of this country, they massacred their own people, so imagine what they could do to the Lebanese people, infacts they already killed enough Lebanese, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! We must stop being manipulated by Syria they killed enough of us from 1975-2005 they stepped on OUR PEOPLE! Now war is going to happen, Syria will enter again, Iran will send their arms. But how about the Christians and Sunnis no ones reaching out not KSA, US, ISR, and we all know they dont have enough wepaons (arm dealing) to fight 1/4 of Hezbollahs army. So were kinda F@#KED here. What Do you guys say?
I am an American and I hope with all my heart that when the fighting starts the vast majority of the US trained Lebanese officer Corp convinces the bulk of the army to fight against Hezbollah and in support of true democracy and freedom then the US and other western and secular middle eastern powers will give you all the bullets that you need.
I agree i hope our country supports lebanon with more than just words but obama is a pussy i doubt he will help. hezbollah are a bunch of thugs i hope israel destroys them and syria too.
Israel are just as guilty of corrupting Lebanon as is Syria. It’s not black or white…it’s not Israel/US or Syria/Iran who are either innocent or guilty; they BOTH play a key role in the destruction of Lebanon
I hope you do, but Obama is not a man of his word, ive been looking at America lately, and he doesnt even keep his word to the American people. George W Bush was a terrible president but i think he was more conceerned about the middle east which was a good thing
i think the army will break up along sectarian lines if told to fight, and i think a large number, actually a majority, of the christian army officers are march 8 supporters.
Lets hope not otherwise 650 million dollars went down the drain. I read somewhere that the US has two carriers with 210 plane and 30 other vessels with a 5,800 man MEU plus other marine forces off the coast of Lebanon. It is probably just a show of force but what a force.
stay positive i think march 14 mp’s should resign from parliamant and force new elections. mikati will lose his seat in tripoli and almost all of jumblatts mp’s and maaybe jumblatt himself will lose his seat to a march 14 candidate. also im not sure the christian or sunnis could or would be able to fight hezbollah, but if they druze help they are good fighters, they havent forgot may 7 2008 events and most druze are not with jumblatts stance, they support 14 march.
Many Druze are planning on not follwing Jumblatt, many of the Druze now consider him a traitor to his father Kamal. He sided with Syria, the country that killed his father.
if fighting breaks out it wont last long the sunni and march 14 christrian dont have capable militias, so hezbollah actually has no one to fight. the druze militia fought hezbolla to a draw in may 2008 but not jumblatt sided with hezbollah.
Hi Beiruti,
May I speak for my country? (but please let’s keep it respectful)
Because I think you see the picture wrongly regarding Israel. Really. Every Israeli will tell you that the last thing they want to do is to kill innocent Lebanese nor innocent Palestinian. Yes, we all know civilians got killed in 2006, but we know, here in Israel that we tried to attack HA, which was cynically firing thousands of rockets into northern Israel from civil areas, which put the civilians on danger. we droped millions of warning papers at these areas before attacked (something that I don’t think any army does for the enemy population).
Besides, you wrote “they will not do anything because they need a reason to stay against Lebanon” – what do you expect us to do? do you really think we can help you without fighting HA? do you think fighting HA can be clean fight with no civili casualties? eliminating HA power is our dream, because we know it will bring peace to (a free) Lebanon and Israel. but when HA fights so cynically from civil areas, civilians get killed, and the world push us to a ceasefire with no achivment except stronger HA.. Why do you think the IDF attacked easy-to-rebuild runaway in the airport and not the terminal? no, I don’t want you to say “thanks!” but I want you to understand that desperation and hate, for the Lebanese, are definitely not our intentions. think logically – why will we need any reason “to be against Lebanon”? why? isn’t ridiculous to think that a country with freedom of speech and free and powerful left-wing press which attack the government always, will have such a support (90%) for a war against “the Switzerland of the Middle-East”? even the hard Israeli left-wingers know, that the only problem with that war was that we weren’t ready enough to fight it…
It’s funny to read that Lebanese think we try to find reasons against them, when their government always try to attack us on the ridiculous things like well-known borders, gas discover on our side (even by the maps Lebanon gave the UN…) and even Humus (which we never clained to be Israeli)…
stay positive i think march 14 mp’s should resign from parliamant and force new elections. mikati will lose his seat in tripoli and almost all of jumblatts mp’s and maaybe jumblatt himself will lose his seat to a march 14 candidate. also im not sure the christian or sunnis could or would be able to fight hezbollah, but if they druze help they are good fighters, they havent forgot may 7 2008 events and most druze are not with jumblatts stance, they support 14 march.
stay positive i think march 14 mp’s should resign from parliamant and force new elections. mikati will lose his seat in tripoli and almost all of jumblatts mp’s and maaybe jumblatt himself will lose his seat to a march 14 candidate. also im not sure the christian or sunnis could or would be able to fight hezbollah, but if they druze help they are good fighters, they havent forgot may 7 2008 events and most druze are not with jumblatts stance, they support 14 march.
Lebanon will not rest until Syrian regime is doomed, taken out, abolished, and there masters are put on trial and in prison. This regime is the making of the former Soviet Union that created this secret service regime.
Shame on the Syrians people that they still accept this corrupted regime as their leader to run their life for 40 years form father to son, regardless of their domination. Shame on you!
You aree right AMERICA does not give a shit about Lebanon. We are sick to death of rabid Islamic dogs foaming at the mouth yelling death! The entire Middle East will soon be ablzae because Islam is a house of vile evil that is addicted to death and hatred. You made your beds now lie in them. I could care less about such evil people.
Lebanon has broke my heart, throughout my whole life. How is this fair? Hezbollah makes the government collapse, now they bring it up with their power. So im wondering who does the army belong to now? Well during the next 2 weeks it will be secterian strife between sunni-shia sadly. Christians do not get involved theres only couple of us left in the Middle East, 10 million in Eygpt, 1 Million in Lebanon, 100000 in Iraq. As for everyone let these dogs (HA, Syria, Iran) die in hell, the filth that they have brought to this earth, in the end Hezbollah may have the stregth, but Justice Will Serve. No criminals get away, when the inditment is anounced and people wake up and know 100% that iran, HA ,Syria killed the man who rebuilt this country. People will be discusted, If hezbollah takes over the country it will be without one Sunni, Druze, Christian left on the soil. And let the shi’ites enjoy this country and turn in into a slum like their south, let them have so many kids that there wont be enough room in the country to support their population, and probably impose Sharia Law, and we all know what that has done just look at Iran and you dont even need to ask yourself any questions. Sadly this world never has its justice served United States couldn’t care less about this matter, Lebanon has no benefit for the United States so the U.S will not give 2 Sh!ts about Lebanon. Israel does not care, they will not do anything because they need a reason to stay against Lebanon, no one wants Israel anyways we all know what they do they kill civilians and make lies, etc. Currently Iran and Syria are happy, Iran has a finger stretched across the middle east controlling Lebanon with their Farsi A$$es, Iran= Biggest sissies on this Earth, they talk Sh!t that they’re going to abolish Israel, they didn’t make one move yet, just a buncha sh!t talkers. As usual Syria remains filled with corruption and dirt, always jealous that Lebanon was never part of Syria they’re leaders. A not really largely publicized story but the Syrians killed 20000 in Hama in a muslim brotherhood rising, so you can understand the filth of this country, they massacred their own people, so imagine what they could do to the Lebanese people, infacts they already killed enough Lebanese, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! We must stop being manipulated by Syria they killed enough of us from 1975-2005 they stepped on OUR PEOPLE! Now war is going to happen, Syria will enter again, Iran will send their arms. But how about the Christians and Sunnis no ones reaching out not KSA, US, ISR, and we all know they dont have enough wepaons (arm dealing) to fight 1/4 of Hezbollahs army. So were kinda F@#KED here. What Do you guys say?
Lebanon has broke my heart, throughout my whole life. How is this fair? Hezbollah makes the government collapse, now they bring it up with their power. So im wondering who does the army belong to now? Well during the next 2 weeks it will be secterian strife between sunni-shia sadly. Christians do not get involved theres only couple of us left in the Middle East, 10 million in Eygpt, 1 Million in Lebanon, 100000 in Iraq. As for everyone let these dogs (HA, Syria, Iran) die in hell, the filth that they have brought to this earth, in the end Hezbollah may have the stregth, but Justice Will Serve. No criminals get away, when the inditment is anounced and people wake up and know 100% that iran, HA ,Syria killed the man who rebuilt this country. People will be discusted, If hezbollah takes over the country it will be without one Sunni, Druze, Christian left on the soil. And let the shi’ites enjoy this country and turn in into a slum like their south, let them have so many kids that there wont be enough room in the country to support their population, and probably impose Sharia Law, and we all know what that has done just look at Iran and you dont even need to ask yourself any questions. Sadly this world never has its justice served United States couldn’t care less about this matter, Lebanon has no benefit for the United States so the U.S will not give 2 Sh!ts about Lebanon. Israel does not care, they will not do anything because they need a reason to stay against Lebanon, no one wants Israel anyways we all know what they do they kill civilians and make lies, etc. Currently Iran and Syria are happy, Iran has a finger stretched across the middle east controlling Lebanon with their Farsi A$$es, Iran= Biggest sissies on this Earth, they talk Sh!t that they’re going to abolish Israel, they didn’t make one move yet, just a buncha sh!t talkers. As usual Syria remains filled with corruption and dirt, always jealous that Lebanon was never part of Syria they’re leaders. A not really largely publicized story but the Syrians killed 20000 in Hama in a muslim brotherhood rising, so you can understand the filth of this country, they massacred their own people, so imagine what they could do to the Lebanese people, infacts they already killed enough Lebanese, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! We must stop being manipulated by Syria they killed enough of us from 1975-2005 they stepped on OUR PEOPLE! Now war is going to happen, Syria will enter again, Iran will send their arms. But how about the Christians and Sunnis no ones reaching out not KSA, US, ISR, and we all know they dont have enough wepaons (arm dealing) to fight 1/4 of Hezbollahs army. So were kinda F@#KED here. What Do you guys say?
Is there anything that happens or is contemplated by anyone any where in the World that you bigots and whining Muslims don’t blame on Israel or Jews? Grow up….you act like spoiled brats!
Is there anything that happens or is contemplated by anyone any where in the World that you bigots and whining Muslims don’t blame on Israel or Jews? Grow up….you act like spoiled brats!
Is there anything that happens or is contemplated by anyone any where in the World that you bigots and whining Muslims don’t blame on Israel or Jews? Grow up….you act like spoiled brats!
What coup? This accusation is journalistic hypocrisy on steroid.
Alliances shift, Majority changes,so does authority.
Lebanon is not a kingdom where royal families have a political monopoly .
No one can or should claim to be the only good representative of any sect in Lebanon.
As a reminder, Mini-Hariri got his first majority in 2005 election through a coalition with HA ,Amal,and Jumblat. H e took the majority and walked away from his election partners.
Next election we will see a new majority ,and then it can form its own cabinet.
What coup? This accusation is journalistic hypocrisy on steroid.
Alliances shift, Majority changes,so does authority.
Lebanon is not a kingdom where royal families have a political monopoly .
No one can or should claim to be the only good representative of any sect in Lebanon.
As a reminder, Mini-Hariri got his first majority in 2005 election through a coalition with HA ,Amal,and Jumblat. H e took the majority and walked away from his election partners.
Next election we will see a new majority ,and then it can form its own cabinet.
What coup? This accusation is journalistic hypocrisy on steroid.
Alliances shift, Majority changes,so does authority.
Lebanon is not a kingdom where royal families have a political monopoly .
No one can or should claim to be the only good representative of any sect in Lebanon.
As a reminder, Mini-Hariri got his first majority in 2005 election through a coalition with HA ,Amal,and Jumblat. H e took the majority and walked away from his election partners.
Next election we will see a new majority ,and then it can form its own cabinet.
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