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| Fears of Clash between Berri, March 14 |
| 2011-05-19 |
[An Nahar] Speaker Nabih KnobbyBerri Speaker of the Lebanese parliament, a member of AMAL, a not very subtle Hizbullah sock puppet... and March 14 Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys... politicians are expected to clash over his efforts to hold a parliamentary session amid a political vacuum caused by the absence of a new government. "No matter what the opinion of colleagues is, some things need to be discussed," Berri told An Nahar daily in remarks published Wednesday. He said the issue of prisons and the election of a governor for the Central Bank were among the priorities that necessitated a parliamentary session despite the absence of a cabinet. However, The journalistic equivalent of the teenager's whatever However... contacts are underway among March 14 officials to come up with a unified stance against Berri's move which began on Wednesday with a meeting of parliament's bureau committee and the administrative and justice committee to hear the opinion of MPs and take the appropriate decision. During the meeting, MP Ali Hassan Khalil, Berri's aide, proposed a draft-law to keep Riyad Salameh as Central Bank governor pending the formation of a new government. MP Michel Moussa, who is also from the speaker's Development and Liberation bloc, proposed another draft-law that aims at granting amnesty in some cases not linked to major offenses. Al-Mustaqbal ... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri... newspaper quoted al-Mustaqbal bloc and other March 14 politicians as saying that their alleged unified stance will be based on their "total rejection to overstep the prime minister and the government over issues that they could take decisions on." They claimed that Caretaker Premier Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. 's cabinet is capable of taking decisions on issues such as the appointment of the Central Bank governor "if it wants to." They did not rule out the possibility for the caretaking government to hold a session if Berri continued to insist on calling for a parliamentary meeting. "We don't accept legislation amid the absence of a cabinet in Leb," the MPs said. Al-Mustaqbal bloc, which is part of the March 14 alliance, met on Wednesday morning and agreed to reject Berri's attempt to call for a parliamentary session to take executive decisions. Despite the announcement, al-Liwaa daily said that members of the March 14 forces were divided over the issue. While the tendency of the Lebanese Forces A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb... bloc was to reject Berri's move, Caretaker Minister Butros Harb and head of the administrative committee MP Robert Ghanem will most likely approve the speaker's initiative. According to al-Liwaa, it was not yet clear what the stance of the Phalange MPs will be. |
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