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| Jumblat to Name Hariri as PM |
| 2011-01-14 |
[An Nahar] Sources from the parliamentary majority predicted on Thursday that Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid WallyJumblat ... who's been on every side in Leb at least four times... is likely to select caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri as a new premier as the MP will not take a step that would harm his ties with him. The sources told the Central News Agency that House Speaker Nabih KnobbyBerri ... the Hizbullah sock puppet ... is also expected to take the same position as Jumblat "which would almost definitely ensure Hariri's return to his position." Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... opposition circles revealed on Thursday that its leadership had met Wednesday night away from the spotlight. They told the news agency that the leaders had suggested a number of names to take over as premier, including former PM Omar Karami, former minister Abdel Rahim Murad, and former MP Oussam Saad. Political sources from the majority noted that the March 8 forces ... the opposition to the Mar. 14th movement, consisting of Hizbullah and its allies, so-called in commemoration of their Mar. 8th, 2006 demonstration of strength in Beirut ... seek to sever any official Lebanese link to the Special Tribunal for Leb. The March 8 camp will be holding an expanded meeting in the upcoming days to reach an agreement on its final choice for prime minister, they added. The opposition is aiming to find a way to take control of power through pressuring Jumblat to shift his support from the majority to the opposition, they continued. Once this is achieved, then a government affiliated with one political camp would be formed, which would then take the legal measures to transfer the case of the liquidation of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri to the Lebanese judiciary, the sources stressed. |
| Posted by:Fred |