Berri says Aoun’s behavior over appointments “repulsive and irresponsible”

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berri defSpeaker Nabih Berri has said that Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun lost the opportunity of appointing  his son-in-law as army chief by rejecting the names proposed by Defense Minister Samir Moqbel.

Berri, whose remarks were published in local dailies on Monday, told his visitors that an opportunity, which will not come again, has been lost.

He said Aoun “waged the wrong battle and his representatives (in the cabinet) did not take the advantage of Moqbel’s proposal of a series of candidates for the army leadership,” including the FPM leader’s son-in-law Brig. Gen. Chamel Roukoz, who is the Commando Regiment chief.

Berri told his visitors that he would have backed Roukoz’s appointment along with Hezbollah, the FPM’s allies and possibly Phalange party  ministers.

But it is now difficult to meet Aoun’s demand to appoint Roukoz as army leader following Moqbel’s decision to extend the terms of the military commander, the chief of staff and the head of the Higher Defense Council, said Berri.

The speaker denied that he has launched an initiative to resolve the dispute on the appointment of high-ranking military and security officials.

But he said Aoun has the right to call for demonstrations to express the FPM’s stances on condition that he does not paralyze the life of the people.

The FPM leader called Saturday on his supporters to get ready to stage demonstrations against the military extensions.

Berri also lamented that Lebanon will not be the first to benefit from the repercussions of the nuclear deal signed between Iran and major powers last month.

“We are wasting time with repulsive and irresponsible behaviors,” he said.

Meanwhile, in an interview published in the Egyptian daily al-Ahram, Berri said that the election of a new president requires Saudi-Iranian assistance.

The Lebanese parliament failed last month and  and for the 26th   time in a row to elect a president to replace Michel Suleiman whose term ended on May 25 last year.

As in the past sessions the parliament was unable to reach a quorum because the Iranian backed Hezbollah militant group and its ally Aoun’s Change and Reform bloc MPs boycotted the sessions.

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5 responses to “Berri says Aoun’s behavior over appointments “repulsive and irresponsible””

  1. arzatna1 Avatar

    Time for Aoun to put back on his pajamas and head to the French embassy and from there back to France , like he did before . I think Aoun has long lost his legitimacy and no more welcome in Lebanon and should get out of here.
    If Berri is criticizing him , this means Hezbollah is also fed up with him and without Hezbollah’s backing he is a big ZERO.

  2. Mr Berri, did you realize now that he is repulsive and an incompetent person.We might name him the Donald Trump of Lebanon.Your sir and the hizbullah created this monster, so deal with him. And as Arzatna said ” Yallah , Aoun , get your pijama and head to the french embassy, your 15 minutes of fame is done…”

  3. Dominoes will start to fall, thanks to the Nuke deal with Iran.

  4. nagy_michael2 Avatar
    nagy_michael2

    I bet you the only reason Berri is made about Aoun because the latter getting more attention than him and getting more money from Iran. so he is cutting in on Berri share and he will not have none of that.. Berri doesn’t care about anybody but himself. All of sudden the S.O.B woke up and realized that Aoun behavior is repulsive and irresponsible.. or did he ever recognized Assad behavior the same way and never said a freakin word about his master..what is it with these politicians that like money and power. Lebanon means nothing to them. Berri and his clowns including Aoun needs to get their shit together and clean up Beirut and all that trash. Are these all these politicians ashamed of themselves? they are busy dividing who gets what in the gov’t while people are inhaling trash day and night. Now how the repulsive and irresponsible trash pile you people have dumped and look the other way while driving by.

  5. Patience2 Avatar
    Patience2

    In the title of this article just leave out ‘behaviour over appointments’.

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