| They've got this thing for hereditary politix, don't they? |
One day after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, Sunnis called for his son, Bahaaeddine, to replace him in May's parliamentary elections. Crowds of Hariri's Sunni supporters gathered at the site of the assassination in front of the St George Hotel in downtown Beirut shouting for Bahaa to fill the political vacuum left by his father's murder. One of the crowd said: "We want Sheikh Bahaa to run for elections and continue the path of his father. We want Syria to withdraw before the parliamentary elections and the government, the Cabinet and especially President Lahoud to resign." Commenting on the possibility of Bahaa heading up a list in this year's elections, Beirut MP Nabil de Freij, a member of Hariri's parliamentary bloc said: "Hariri's family will have to decide on such an issue, which won't happen before the body's cold obituary ends." |