 | "Y'see, when we're having a cabinet crisis, we can't spare any time to throw Emile out on his ear..." |
Despite mounting pressures on President oud">Emile Lahoud to resign his office, "the issue of the presidency is not the priority at the moment," said MP Farid Khazen. Khazen, a member of the opposition's March 14 movement formed after the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri, told The Daily Star on Monday that now is not the time to table discussions on the presidency "simply because we are facing a Cabinet crisis."
| I strongly suspect that if there wasn't any pressure on Emile to depart Hezbollah wouldn't have precipitated a cabinet crisis... |
The MP was referring to the Cabinet's latest setback, in which its five Shiite ministers continue to refuse to take part in governmental sessions.
| "Nope. Nope. Ain't gonna do it. And you can't make us, so there!" |
The row continues to see numerous meetings being held between the country's major political blocs in efforts to find a solution. "I don't think that there will be any change in the presidency issue at the moment. We have a situation where if we don't reach a solution the Cabinet might fall, so I think that the presidency issue is not a priority at the moment," he said. |