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The Free Patriotic Movement, the largest Christian bloc in Lebanon, warned Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri on Saturday against marginalizing President Michel Aoun and other parliamentary blocs in talks on forming a government.
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The Free Patriotic Movement, the party founded by Aoun and currently headed by former Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil and Aoun’s son-in-law, said in a statement that it will not participate in the government and will not give it confidence on the foundations presented by Hariri, refusing to give Hariri and his team “the half plus one” in the government because He will use it to prevent reform, disrupt criminal scrutiny, and brake all attempts to fight corruption. “
The Free Patriotic Movement warned of the danger of the exclusionary approach that the designated president is adopting in his dealings with the president of the republic and with the concerned parliamentary blocs, considering that this “behavior constitutes a clear desire to name by itself Christian ministers, so that it has half of the cabinet members plus one.”
The “Free Patriot” said that “after the end of the show movement that Hariri carried out in the Republican Palace in search of electoral popularity, he must return to the constitutional and constitutional principles that he knows well and which he previously adopted in forming each government because it is the only way to form any government from What kind it was. “
Hariri and Aoun entered into a dispute over forming a government for months, dashing hopes of reversing the worsening financial collapse in Lebanon.
Source: Al Jadeed + Reuters
