Aoun on 2nd Day of Jbeil Tour: Those Seeking Small Electoral Districts Want to Fragment Lebanon
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun declared on Sunday that it is no longer acceptable that the “majority of the people be represented through a parliamentary minority,” reported the National News Agency.
He said of the parliamentary electoral law: “Those demanding the adoption of small electoral districts want to fragment Lebanon because they are only seeking their immediate interests.”
The MP made his remarks from the town of Ehmej during the second and final day of his tour of the region of Jbeil.
He continued: “We are searching for a law that provide proper representation even if a parliamentary electoral law based on proportional representation will cost us four MPs.”
Indirectly addressing the March 14 camp, the MP said: “It will be a fatal choice if they come to power because they are carrying out a revolt that is more dangerous than the period of Syrian hegemony over Lebanon.”
The government adopted in August a parliamentary electoral law based on proportional representation and 13 electoral districts.
The draft law was rejected by the opposition and Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat.
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has suggested on Friday the adoption of small districts for the law, saying that it offers fair representation.
The opposition's proposal made by MPs George Adwan, Sami Gemayel and Butros Harb supports the formation of 50 small-sized districts in a winner-takes-all system, while a plan suggested by Aoun’s Change and Reform bloc would allow every sect to elect its own MPs under a proportional representation system with Lebanon as a single district.
Aoun noted on Saturday that the stances adopted by the cabinet provided the country with the necessary stability, noting that the new electoral law based on proportional representation will be approved “ultimately.”
30 September 2012, 11:17
411
the clown is only worried about himself.what is wrong with Christians voting for there own MP's ..he knows well he doesn't have the majority christian support..he is only interested in power at any cost ,even if it destroys the country.
30 September 2012, 15:08
05
FT his statement is contradictory in it self .is he willing to give away four MPs .what he proposes suits a senate not a parliamentary
system.an MP should be elected by his local people and not outsiders.
30 September 2012, 19:32
16
@FlameThrower
I am sure you do know, since you are always up on current news, that the proposal you mentioned was made AFTER the FPM supported and was part of the government's 13 districts and nisbiyyeh plan and AFTER M14 Christians decried FPM's backtracking on the agreement reached between all Christian parties in Bkirki.
Half truths are not becoming of someone who insists on wanting nothing but the truth.
01 October 2012, 19:46
02
Siddo ya schizo Farsi BSThrower. Keep digging your grave deeper with your usual idiotic posts.
30 September 2012, 12:11
12
Christian vote is for Lebanese forces and for Dori chamoun i guess as proved in keserwen and metn and so on...slash ur war criminal geagea backstabbed lebanon in 1990 and then went like a bobby for the assad's funeral's....yii sorry i forgot to say doctor hahaha...anyhow hope this time he ll have the guts to at least nominate one candidate in keserwan al foufou.and maybe also not support berry in jezzine this yr!
30 September 2012, 13:02
19
“It will be a fatal choice if they come to power because they are carrying out a revolt that is more dangerous than the period of Syrian hegemony over Lebanon.”
i guess iranian hegemony is the best for the country so they will protect you and help you achieve your frustrated dreams...
stop taking people for fools making hezbis look democrats and sunnis look salafis. you are the one fragmenting the society by instilling this populist propaganda in people s minds...
30 September 2012, 14:08
29
@flamethrower Just because I disagree with you on some things doesn't mean everything you said was wrong, because some is right. Geagea was a man of many mistakes, as was Aoun. But in 1990, Aoun and Dany Chamoun were the ones who were doing the right thing for Lebanon. Taef snapped the Christians in half. But that was then. Think of now. Today I see Aoun, once the fiercest anti-Syrian in our country, allied with them. Allied with the same people who in the recent past murdered our men. Emptied our coffers. The same people who would kill any voice opposed to them. Geagea, today, is against the Syrians, the Lebanese and the Lebanese Christians historical opponent. One day normal relations will be good, but many steps need to be taken. Aoun was right. Now he was wrong. Geagea was wrong. Now he is right. They are both as bad as eachother, don't get me wrong, what we need is fresh people for Libnan
30 September 2012, 14:33
19
Ya ex-general, the only that is fragmented is your head...TRAITOR!!!
30 September 2012, 14:36
41
slash get a life and change that pic...with all due respect khallas dude, it s been 30 yrs...put fakhredine's pic eza shi kamen...
30 September 2012, 16:35
13
General of disaster, how much more chaos will you bring you and your friends to Lebanon? you have caused recent wars, killing in beirut, low tourism from the people that spend most ( arabs) , build up bad relationships with them, bow to syrians infiltrations in to our territory, accepted that the iranians say that hezbollah is here to attack israel if Iran is attacked, the list is so long. I will not side with March14th because the list is maybe longer but at the end one has to calculate the damages and pick the lesser evil. I am sorry but when i see Hezbollah and i see hariri, i see future tv and i see manar, i see who gives christians Mps in their bloc and positions and who denies them even the right to enter their islamic militia, i understand well.
30 September 2012, 16:43
14
@ FLAMETHROWER,I understand that the Lebanon of Hezbollah and Aoun is not the Lebanon i dream of, and the lebanon of march 14th is not the lebanon i dream of, but the one i need right now in order to avoid disaster.
Aoun is betting on proportionnal representation because he lost his 50% of christians. He is clearly betting on the chiite vote and u cannot deny it. Yes he knows he will lose 4Mps because u said it urself he knows he will not be able to get his jbeil-keserwan list complete cause half of the christians that were with him will not vote for him. He will get his mps there with the chiites votes and thus lose those 4MPs he is talking about...
I know he is crazy , but he is at least smarter than his stupid supporters , he knows he is loosing mps, but if Hezbollah and him form a majority , he will be president. It was, is , and will be always his only and sole dream, and the expense will be Lebanon as usual.
30 September 2012, 20:30
12
Recycling politicians who are never held accounatble will keep Lebanon under, no matter what election laws are passed.
30 September 2012, 22:02
12
Finally Aoun admits he needs the he is the one against the small districts that favor Christian votes............ I wonder why? and yet his party kept lying and accusing others of it.
01 October 2012, 09:06
11
no one has divided and hurt and destroyed christians in lebanon more than this man. no one has helped the cause of hezbolah and syria more than this man. and he wants to talk about being "unchristian"
01 October 2012, 13:39
02
let the orthodox plan work it is the only way for christians to elect all 64 deputies
god bless 10452
+oua nabka +
01 October 2012, 19:40
00
ft u're disgusting! How could someone be so blind, so stupid? Of course, that is if u're not a Aoun family member or servant for instance..
and how come naharnet doesn't mention the brave families who restricted Aoun to enter the church to "pray" for the martyrs he killed himself, in his disgusting quest for power and narcissism..
God bless you Lebanon, I hope one day you will wake up and love life again!
01 October 2012, 19:47
02
Slash...it's more like pathetic to see this Farsi come back for more abuse time after time....lol!
02 October 2012, 10:14
01
FT...if you truely believe what you are writing... you belong in a mental institution! You are rewriting history as you see it fit. You're a waste of time. Go get a life, you're a sorry and pathetic person...I don't envy you...
