22/10/2009 One hundred and eighteen days on the appointment of MP Saad Hariri to form the "partnership" cabinet, Lebanon remains without a government…
One hundred and eighteen days have passed and the Lebanese various blocs are still unable to "discover" the "magical" formula that would allow the "partnership" to be reflected in a real government…
One hundred and eighteen days have passed, half of them filled with non-justified "optimism winds" that turned to be "delusive" and "illusory" at the end…
Indeed, suddenly and without prior notice, "optimism" collapsed on Wednesday and everything returned to square zero…
All eyes were directed to the next meeting that would join Prime Minister-Designate Saad Hariri and the head of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc, a meeting that was believed to be "final" and "decisive" when the General decided to break his silence as he felt some "plot" was being prepared against him and his bloc.
"Everyone believed that the cabinet was about to be formed while I had no knowledge of that. I even thought that the cabinet will be a parliamentary majority one," Aoun told reporters on Wednesday following his bloc's weekly meeting. "It seems like it is being formed without our knowledge," he added.
The General, the opposition's "spokesman" and "representative" in the ongoing consultations to form the cabinet, is thus "unaware" of the "suspicious" optimism's reasons. According to him, the proposals presented to him don't actually match the ideas and agreements he was endorsing with the PM-Designate.
Aoun was reacting to an "excess in optimism" expressed in only a few MPs by the majority MPs who convinced Lebanese that the cabinet was completed and that it would see light "at any moment."
HARIRI SHOCKED AT AOUN'S POSITION
Meanwhile, sources close to Hariri told Lebanese daily As-Safir that the premier-designate was shocked at Aoun's position, particularly since details of the cabinet lineup were almost completed and Aoun himself said in an interview with a French magazine that an agreement was in the works.
But Lebanese daily An-Nahar quoted a Free Patriotic Movement source as saying that Aoun "did not receive an acceptable offer" from Hariri, leaving the ball in the court of the Future Movement leader. The source said Aoun was ready to meet Hariri "any time once he was a suitable proposal."
JUMBLATT WARNS AOUN AGAINST GETTING TRAPPED IN 'BIDING WAR'
One hundred and eighteen days have passed and the Lebanese various blocs are still unable to "discover" the "magical" formula that would allow the "partnership" to be reflected in a real government…
One hundred and eighteen days have passed, half of them filled with non-justified "optimism winds" that turned to be "delusive" and "illusory" at the end…
Indeed, suddenly and without prior notice, "optimism" collapsed on Wednesday and everything returned to square zero…
All eyes were directed to the next meeting that would join Prime Minister-Designate Saad Hariri and the head of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc, a meeting that was believed to be "final" and "decisive" when the General decided to break his silence as he felt some "plot" was being prepared against him and his bloc.
"Everyone believed that the cabinet was about to be formed while I had no knowledge of that. I even thought that the cabinet will be a parliamentary majority one," Aoun told reporters on Wednesday following his bloc's weekly meeting. "It seems like it is being formed without our knowledge," he added.
The General, the opposition's "spokesman" and "representative" in the ongoing consultations to form the cabinet, is thus "unaware" of the "suspicious" optimism's reasons. According to him, the proposals presented to him don't actually match the ideas and agreements he was endorsing with the PM-Designate.
Aoun was reacting to an "excess in optimism" expressed in only a few MPs by the majority MPs who convinced Lebanese that the cabinet was completed and that it would see light "at any moment."
HARIRI SHOCKED AT AOUN'S POSITION
Meanwhile, sources close to Hariri told Lebanese daily As-Safir that the premier-designate was shocked at Aoun's position, particularly since details of the cabinet lineup were almost completed and Aoun himself said in an interview with a French magazine that an agreement was in the works.
But Lebanese daily An-Nahar quoted a Free Patriotic Movement source as saying that Aoun "did not receive an acceptable offer" from Hariri, leaving the ball in the court of the Future Movement leader. The source said Aoun was ready to meet Hariri "any time once he was a suitable proposal."
JUMBLATT WARNS AOUN AGAINST GETTING TRAPPED IN 'BIDING WAR'
In the meantime, the head of the Democratic Gathering MP Walid Jumblatt warned MP Michel Aoun against getting trapped in a "bidding war" over Christian representation.
Jumblatt cautioned that there are internal and external forces that do not want the historic meeting between King Abdullah and President Bashar al-Assad to be productive. "From here, Aoun should see the picture as a whole without indulging into a lot of details," he said.
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