Bassil refuses to let go of his Energy minister position

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bassil gibran- 0209 defCaretaker Energy Minister Gebran Bassil refuses to let go of his current caretaker position in the cabinet and criticized the suggested form of cabinet rotation, and said that to deny him the oil portfolio would be unfair since he represents the Christians in this position .

“Lebanon’s oil is being targeted and we refused to let the oil portfolio be taken , because we are worried about its future .” Bassil said in a statement Sunday.

He went on to say that the oil portfolio is important to Lebanon’s future and to Christians in Lebanon, of which his bloc, the Free Patriotic Movement, is the largest representative stressing that “oil gives new guarantee for the Christians .”

“The principle of not dedicating a ministerial portfolio to a person or a team is sound, however, applying rotation in the form currently proposed would prevent the proper functioning of institutions and damage the people’s interests.” He said

“Is it permissible to deny the largest Christian bloc a sovereign portfolio?” He asked

Lebanon’s PM Designate Tammam Salam has been attempting to form a new government that would bring together the rival March 14 and March 8 alliances for nearly 10 months .

Former PM and Future Movement leader MP Saad Hariri, whose party has the largest parliamentary bloc in the cabinet and who is considered a pillar in the pro-Western March 14 coalition, stated earlier in the week that he is putting aside his personal differences with Hezbollah in an effort to form a national-partnership cabinet that can safeguard the country.

FPM leader MP Michel Aoun has rejected the proposed rotation of the ministerial portfolios and his son-in-law Bassil has voiced his desire to maintain control over the Energy and Telecom Ministries.

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16 responses to “Bassil refuses to let go of his Energy minister position”

  1. jamilbarakate Avatar
    jamilbarakate

    Ya3yboshoom – 3amyet-sater wara ilmasi7iya!

  2. Amine123 Avatar

    Why should he, he is stealing more money than ever

  3. ditto Amine123. Him and his father in law ….

    1. Learn how to deal with it Tk, we pick the ministries we want and you can have the rest.

      1. Yes I will Libnan1. I will deal with it . thank you for proving my point.

        1. Your welcome Tk, glad to help.

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar

            Use it or lose it, right?
            And where is it?
            Amine123 and TK are right.

          2. Please explain how they are right?

          3. 5thDrawer Avatar

            How many years, and where’s the electricity? We know a pile of ‘international money’ went in for that …. did anyone find and finally place the hydro pole??

          4. We were able to increase the electric production be 35%. Do’t forget the use of electricity went up drastically because of new ACs, smart phone chargers, lighting up downtown 24/7 instead of distributing power to normal people, rebuilding the Jeieh plant. Just remember the only plant that was functional was the Zouk plant, we just can’t stop the theft because we don’t control the interior ministry, we need to control that ministry.

          5. 5thDrawer Avatar

            I use electricity only as a prime example. ‘The world’ functions on it, as you see.
            For SOME it has become a life-death topic.
            And every other bit of what we consider ‘modern infrastructure’ is just as devoid of ‘control’ because there IS no governing.
            They only argue (dialogue) about ‘WHO’, and not ‘What’ or ‘How’.
            It’s all about the ‘thinking’ … and it’s rotten to the core. Theft? … people stealing from themselves all the time everywhere because ‘government’ does it – and government offices run that way when there’s no ‘oversight’ BY a government. Lebanon has a ‘barter system’ working because government doesn’t – not necessarily ‘theft’ unless you can intimidate the buyer enough to overcharge.
            (e.g. control of drugstores and prescription drugs)
            (e.g. control of food handling for ‘health reasons’, not for any other.)
            MAKE a government FIRST, then show the stupid opposition to doing anything properly – for ALL the people … and open a ‘press’ to the dialoguing – put it out to the people who might be able to decide that there are certain ‘types’ who can’t run a country. Then HAVE a vote – which means something ‘working’ for a time longer than 6 months.
            And if they can’t all agree on having that simplicity, it’s dead.

          6. I think you are contradicting yourself. we have heard them talking about a 24 /24 hours electricity in lebanon at the end of year 2011. he owned this cabinet before that and nothing happened. Can you please explain to us what went wrong?

  4. breakthemould Avatar
    breakthemould

    He also said “The issue is now bigger than forming a government but it is concerned
    with constitutionality and trust, which if breached would require not
    only a new social contract but a whole new nation,” What exactly does he mean by ” a whole new nation”? ship all the Lebanese people to say Canada and bring Norwegians? or may be swap them with Somalis or better Maltese Christians in their place to keep his energy ministry?

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      I think the ‘Northern Somalis’ are doing better now …. 😉 … why would they move?

      1. breakthemould Avatar
        breakthemould

        For the hummous and the traffic. May be they don’t have any.

  5. You all- the only solution to these idiocy is to Abolish Lebanon ! a phantom country…

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