Jumblat’s Sources: We Are Not Tools
The Progressive Socialist Party will not become a follower and refuses to allow Energy Minister Jebran Bassil to spend $1.2 billion to build power plants without the control of a technical committee, PSP sources said.
The sources of PSP leader Walid Jumblat told the Saudi al-Riyadh daily in remarks published Friday that all it is asking from Bassil is to form a committee to supervise under the leadership of the minister the spending of the money.
The cabinet is deadlocked over the electricity draft law which was proposed to parliament by Bassil’s father-in-law Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun.
The draft law calls for the allocation of $1.2 billion to the energy ministry to build power plants to supply 700 additional megawatts for the country.
Even if the plan was approved by the cabinet during its session on Sept. 7, it will be blocked in parliament, the sources warned.
“We don’t accept to be shackled inside the cabinet. We have participated in it to salvage Lebanon from a war that would have erupted hadn’t Jumblat taken his stance,” they said.
The PSP ministers told the cabinet during its 10-minute session that it held on Wednesday that they neither follow the March 14-led opposition nor the March 8 forces that make up the parliamentary majority, the sources told al-Riyadh.
“We won’t be a tool in anybody’s hands,” they said.
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in other words the syrian regime is melting.
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Bravo Walid, We're not tools nor fools!
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No Wally you are not a tool, the tool is Michel Aoun according to Patriarch Ra3i.
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March 14 losers would rather see Lebanon go dark than solve the electricity problem! The corrupt baboons are simply jealous that they did nothing when they were in power! ONE WAY TICKET!
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This Energy minister is acting like a spoiled child.
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The Lebanese people are the tools .....Did anyone asked the Lebanese about their demands .....Mr numb at recently rejected the proposed election law and now any project that doesn't respect the sectarian mafia won't see the light....
So guys no light= no vote= no electricity....
Now accusing Bassil and Aoun of stealing the public money is just a dirty plan to divert the attention ....that's it that's all folks....
MrBrain
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so what?
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@Someone - Keep calling names and repeating stupid slogans. The only request of the CABINET was that a committee be established to oversee the spending and development in the project. Completely reasonable request, unless your MA and FPM.
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All this is a game that FPM is playing to get rid of the governement and have a reason to resign so it falls and a caretaker governement cannot handle the STL, Michel aoun knows nobody will accept his crazy son in law 's plan without monitoring, This is all diversion, God help Lebanon from this eternal traitor.
"We have participated in the cabinet to salvage Lebanon from a war that would have erupted hadn’t Jumblat taken his stance”
hmm... souds like you have been theatened..... and by whom was that ???