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Lebanese Elections Losers React Nervously: Almustaqbal Victory For The Nation
13 June 2009
Minister of Transportation and Public Works Ghazi Aridi said Saturday that the elections winners dealt bravely with the victory, as some of the losers reacted nervously. The March 14 coalition achieved a victory in last Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Lebanon with 71 seats out of 128, leaving 57 to the Hizbullah-led March 8 opposition camp backed By Iran and Syria. Aridi considered this as a victory to the Lebanese state, adding that the next period is for reforming the state institutions. He also noted that the biggest winner in these elections is Almustaqbal Movement leader MP Saad Hariri who pronounced a moderate speech after the results, meeting the stances of MP Walid Jumblatt and Speaker Nabih Berry. As for the Prime Ministry, Aridi considered that Hariri has the right to take this responsibility as he is the first Sunni leader of the country, noting that President Michel Sleiman will have a greater role in the next stage. And regarding the Saudi-Syrian openness and that Damascus advised its allies to keep in touch with Hariri and Jumblatt, Aridi said: “What Assafir daily mentioned quoting President Sleiman is true.” He asserted that a Hariri will meet Berry soon, considering that the majority leader’s meeting with Hizbullah’s secretary general Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah would be of a bigger significance. Makari: if March 14 governs without obstruction, Lebanon will prosper Vice House Speaker Farid Makari said Sunday that the March 14 majority would take the country to a bright future if it was allowed to govern and tackle the three main challenges that face the country. “The three main challenges that face Lebanon are preserving national accord, the economic and social issues and resolving the differences over the debatable matter of Hizbullah’s arms,” Makari told the almustaqbal.org. Makari hoped that the “obstruction of the parliamentary elections does not reoccur.” “The fact that the March 14 coalition held to the doctrines of the Cedar Revolution led people to renew their confidence in it.” On the issue of the ratification of the 2009 budget, Makari said “the budget was a matter of controversy before the parliamentary elections and it was used by the opposition as part of its electoral campaign. Thus, President Sleiman preferred to postpone it until the elections are over. And now it was time for its ratification.” On the minority demands to be given guarantees in the ministerial statement of the coming government he said “I am with giving the minority guarantees if the March 8 coalition deals with the issue positively without using the term ‘we do not accept, we do not agree … etc.” Separately, Makari ruled out the possibility that the reelection of the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might have “a negative or positive impact on Lebanon because it is an internal Iranian issue that we are not concerned of.”
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