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| Bassil 'hurt' by Hezbollah, finds 'common ground' with opposition |
| 2023-05-19 |
| [An Nahar] Free Patriotic Movement Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic... chief Jebran Bassil is deeply hurt by Hezbollah, he told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, in remarks published Thursday. "There is a big disagreement" Bassil said, adding that the country needs to resist through its economy and the dignity of its people, and not just through arms. Yet, there is no divorce between the two parties, as Bassil considered communication a must. "Communication with the Axis of Defiance is not severed," Bassil said. "Dialogue over a presidential agreement is also making progress with the opposition parties, and there are points of agreement, on the names, the approach or the project," Bassil said, although he accused some parties of "stubbornness" that, according to him, led to an unneeded waste of time and delayed dialogue. "We have no other choice but consensus," Bassil said, stressing that if every party continues to challenge the other party by clinging to its candidate, the vacuum will drag on." |
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