... the Future Movement, political party led by Saad Hariri...
Movement MP Ahmed Fatfat held talks with Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
Chief
Samir Geagea... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ...
in an attempt to rectify ties between the two parties after the formation of Prime Minister Tammam Salam's cabinet.
Fatfat stressed after a two-hour meeting in Maarab that the two parties are "allies," pointing out that "it's is a necessity to reconsider the current political stage after the formation of the new government, which we hoped that the LF would have been part of."
However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
he pointed out that al-Mustaqbal movement "respects the stance of the Lebanese Forces."
Ties have deteriorated between al-Mustaqbal Movement and the Lebanese forces after al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM 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 assassination. 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.
agreed to participate with Hizbullah
...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
in Salam's government.
Geagea had been adamant to stay out of the cabinet, saying he would not share power with Hizbullah.
He has also reportedly expressed dismay at the recent rapprochement between Hariri and his foe Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
chief
Michel Aoun...a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
.
Concerning Salam's cabinet ministerial policy statement, Fatfat stressed that the Baabda declaration should be the basis of any ministerial statement, which should be in alignment with the Bkirki charter.
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi had unveiled early in February a treaty that calls for holding the presidential elections on time.
It also demanded that political powers adhere to the country's national pact and place national interests above personal ones.
Asked about army-people-resistance equation, the politician ruled out the possibility of mentioning the formula in the ministerial statement, whether directly or in an indirect way.
"Hizbullah has realized that the party's intervention in Syria is imposing great threats on it and its popular base as we are on the doorstep of a historical stage that compels us to act responsibly and take straightforward stances," Fatfat said in his statement.
The MP warned that "if the there was no intention to safeguard Leb from its crises then the national unity cabinet doesn't exist."
He reiterated that the "dissociation policy is Leb's only salvation."
Fatfat revealed that several al-Mustaqbal movement politicians support the withdrawal of the party's ministers from the cabinet if "the army-people-resistance equation was adopted in the ministerial policy statement."