Franjieh challenges Aoun and Hezbollah, will head to Parliament if FPM resorts to protests

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franjieh L- aoun-nasrallahMarada Movement leader MP Suleiman Franjieh challenged  his rival Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Michel Aoun and  warned that he would head to parliament to attend a session for the election of a president if Aoun’s supporters resort to street protests. He also challenged  Hezbollah by stressing that  he would not pull out of the race, and would not abolish himself .

“If Aoun wants to change the rules of the democratic game on the presidential elections by resorting to the street, then … the option of heading to parliament for the electoral session” will be on the table, Franjieh said in remarks published on Friday.

Franjieh has been boycotting parliamentary sessions aimed at electing a president along with Aoun’s bloc and Hezbollah despite being a candidate and being backed by the Future  Movement chief Saad Hariri who leads the March 14 alliance.

Aoun, on the other hand, is supported by the majority of the March 8 coalition and the Lebanese Forces that is allied with Hariri.

The  Change and Reform bloc warned earlier this week that Aoun is mulling to call on his supporters to resort to street protests to press for the demand to elect him as president.

He claims that he represents the majority of Christians particularly after receiving the support of LF chief Samir Geagea.

Asked whether he preferred a centrist to reach Baabda Palace, the Marada chief said that he would back Aoun for the presidency yet he would not eliminate himself by meeting the FPM leader’s request to withdraw from the presidential race.

Franjieh told al-Joumhouria daily that Hezbollah neither asked him to withdraw in Aoun’s favor nor to remain a candidate.

“Even if Hezbollah asked me to pull out of the race, I would not do it and I would not abolish myself,” he said.

Franjieh, who is a member of the Hezbollah-led March 8 coalition, reiterated that he has not made commitments to Hariri or anyone else because of the Mustaqbal chief’s support for his candidacy.

Franjieh stressed that his election would be a victory for the March 8 alliance but not a loss for March 14.

Hezbollah does not want anyone as a president

Geagea exposed Hezbollah’s real intensions on Wednesday by stressing that the party does not want presidential elections in the current period or the election as president of its main Christian ally, Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun.

“At the strategic level, Hezbollah cannot coexist with a real state in Lebanon … and at the tactical level Hezbollah does not want General Aoun as president, although it cannot afford to lose him, which has pushed it to obstruct the presidential vote,” Geagea said in an interview with Russia Today (RT) TV.

“This way it does not lose Aoun and it postpones the problem indefinitely ,” Geagea added.

Parliament failed for 37th time 

The Lebanese parliament failed again on March 23 and for the 37th time in a row to elect a president to replace Michel Suleiman whose term ended on May 25 , 2014.

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 session, because they could not guarantee Aoun’s election as a president

Speaker Berri a key ally of Hezbollah postponed the election to April 18, 2016.

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36 responses to “Franjieh challenges Aoun and Hezbollah, will head to Parliament if FPM resorts to protests”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    Easter used to be such a lovely time … even if churches make folks suffer for many hours with no food or water, and weird incantations in air thick with incense.

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      All week of Easter i’m privileged, radio plays great masters most beautiful cantatas and requiems.

    2. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      “El Massih Am” “The Messiah Rose” is the greeting of Eastern Christianity Easter Sunday.
      They never say “resuscitated” like in the West.

      https://bible.org/article/why-i-do-not-think-king-james-bible-best-translation-available-today

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        I NEVER heard the word ‘resuscitated’ used in any Church … for damn sure.
        Who put THAT into usage to mean ‘Christ Rose From The Dead’? Doesn’t even make sense.
        Resuscitation is a recent medical terminology used for people who perhaps had heart attacks, but before the brain died from lack of oxygen, were resuscitated by various modern and fast methods.
        It CANNOT refer, even remotely, to a ‘miracle’ of getting a body to jump up after 3 days dead.
        (communication of reality dives furthur into the dumper …)

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar
          Hind Abyad

          Christian Roman liturgy says resuscitated, says, ‘son of God’ or ‘God’..or ‘Trinity’, all this is not Orthodox. Rose, means woke up. We never say Christ is God, son of God,
          he’s El Massih.

          “Josephus (1st century AD) gives the following outline: The Pharisees believed in Resurrection of the Dead, and the Sadducee’s did not.[26] The Sadducee’s, politically powerful religious leaders, rejected the afterlife, angels, and demons as well as the Pharisees’ oral law. The Pharisees, whose views became Rabbinic Judaism, eventually won (or at least survived) this debate. The promise of a future resurrection appears in the Torah as well as in certain Jewish works, such as the Life of Adam and Eve, 🙂 c 100 BC, and the Pharisaic book 2 Maccabees, c 124 BC.[27] It is thus accurate to say that there was nothing innovative or uniquely Christian about belief in resurrection.[28]

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Resurrection is not a synonym for resuscitation. geezzz…
            And I see Pakistanis targetted Christian Easter Celebrations. (they say Taliban ,,,naturally)

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            OK, sorry for the misspelling.

            They are targeting Christians everywhere.
            Pakistan was one of only three countries, along with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which recognized the Taliban when they were in power in Afghanistan from the mid-1990s until 2001.Talibans were supported by Saudis at the time of the Russian in Afghanistan.

  2. digital82711 Avatar
    digital82711

    If the average citizen from Lebanon had stood up against the Israelis and their 20+ year occupation of Lebanon, then Hezbollah never would have the influence it has now. It has proved the only force able to defeat the Israelis. Where was this guy when the Zionists were occupying? Probably hiding like a coward as Hezbollah freed the country and expelled the IDF.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      He was in Diapers. Probably in the part of the COUNTRY occupied by ASSad for 30 years.
      ( what a stupid question.)

      1. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        That doesn’t change anything, no one has a long memory than the Middle East.

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          You mean ‘longer’??
          The brains are so stuffed by the ‘one book’ nothing else fits in – it’s perpetual – like a ‘recall’ of a memory chip that never gets updated – just plays over and over.

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            You would’t understand, I wasn’t talking about the Book..

          2. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Let’s say it’s their ‘Hitch-Hicker’s Guide’. If you meant ‘a long memory in’, then the book applies anyway – it’s all they can remember, or are allowed to.

          3. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            I say it in French; au Moyen Orient on a la mémoire longue..
            seams not working in Englisi.. oufff

          4. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            the memory of the history lingers ? (we tend to forget ours..)

          5. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            YaLibnan is retarded or what? While all eyes on Palmyra, the Syrian Arab Army is making gains in east Hama! Big advance towards ISIL’s stronghold.
            Syria: Opposition SOHR confirms the victories of the Syrian Army in Palmyra: ISIS defeat makes ISIS retreat
            https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/syrian-army-encircles-palmyra-isils-defenses-collapse/

          6. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Good. Like French towns in WWII, some up to 7 days non-stop, they have to be relentless. One hopes most don’t sneak out. Considering the idiots blew up and flattened a lot of the ancient stuff, there’s not much left to hide in. Since they hate their own guys who retreat, maybe the rest of them will self-immolate in the oil city. 😉
            (Yalibnan is watching American election stuff… ;-)))

          7. Dude, regardless of how nicely you write, you are mixing water and oil. You apparently never lived in the Middle East. What’s applicable in the West does not fit here.

    2. master09 Avatar

      How many and how long did your friends and brothers Syria occupy, how many Lebanese did they kill. Second how many young men still missing from the hands of Syrian army that are either in jail or starved to death. No body expelled anyone it was agreement by foreign round tables. How many Lebanese did your brothers the PLO kill in Lebanon, that’s why Isreal will always be at our door step because the threat of rockets pointed at them.

      1. 5thDrawer Avatar
        5thDrawer

        Kids know nothing, master09. Probably don’t even know what makes a digit.;-))

  3. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States..
    http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/25/the-occupation-of-the-american-mind-israels-public-relations-war-in-the-united-states/

  4. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    Look at this inapt Marc Toner skating around the ring..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxs7yog_CjM&feature=youtu.be

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      ‘inept’ …. and yes, wasn’t taking out the Deash a ‘prime directive’ ?? ;-))

      1. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        ohh..inapt is French, as 80% was “borrowed” by the Englisi

          1. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Good one … hehehehe

          2. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Funnier with subtitles..:-)

          3. 5thDrawer Avatar
            5thDrawer

            Yup.
            AND I noticed that there was NO NEW NEWS on Easter Sunday. Marvellous.

          4. Hind Abyad Avatar
            Hind Abyad

            Yes there where ..not here.

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar
          5thDrawer

          I retranslate pour les Anglais ici. ;-)))

  5. Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel Avatar
    Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel

    Only Sami Gemayel would be a decent President.

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