Aoun: Jumblat Was Never Part of Parliamentary Majority
Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun slammed on Tuesday the National Struggle Front’s boycott of Monday’s parliamentary session, accusing its leader MP Walid Jumblat of only seeking to ensure his own interests.
He said after the Change and Reform bloc’s weekly meeting: “It seems that the MP was never part of the parliamentary majority.”
The National Struggle Front decided to adopt a negative position, which it did not justify, explained the FPM leader.
Asked if the March 8 camp still retains the parliamentary majority, Aoun responded: “We will see if we have the majority if Jumblat resigns from government.”
On Monday, March 14 and National Struggle Front MPs boycotted a parliamentary session that was aimed at tackling the dispute over government extra-budgetary spending.
Jumblat told As Safir newspaper Monday that his bloc’s decision to boycott lies in its insistence on finding a political solution to the dispute.
“This doesn’t mean that we are no longer part of the ruling majority,” he said about the March 8 forces.
Addressing the government spending dispute, Aoun remarked: “The case should be tackled by the Finance Ministry and in turn referred to the cabinet, which then hands it over the parliamentary finance committee before sending it to parliament.”
A copy of the final report should also be passed over to the Audit Bureau, he added.
He reiterated his demand that the account records of the governments of former Prime Ministers Fouad Saniora and Saad Hariri be revealed and handed over to the Audit Bureau.
“They have so far failed to do so,” said the FPM leader.
Aoun stressed that he will not accept any settlement in the case of government spending, saying that he will abide by the constitution to resolve the dispute.
“We will not accept any resolution that is not legal,” he stated.
The March 14 opposition and mainly al-Mustaqbal bloc MPs are protesting the March 8 camp’s proposal of a bill that would legalize the $5.9 billion spending made by Premier Najib Miqati’s cabinet in 2011.
The lawmakers are conditioning the approval of the bill to a comprehensive settlement to the current spending and the $11 billion spent by the Saniora and Hariri governments.
Lebanon has been without a state budget since 2005.
The March 8 forces, mainly the Change and Reform bloc, are demanding records on how the $11 billion was spent.
However, Saniora, who heads al-Mustaqbal bloc, stresses the spending was made to cover the expenses of increase in wages of civil servants, subsidize electricite du Liban and pay the interest on the national debt and compensations to the victims of the Israeli aggression on Lebanon in 2006.
He said that the total of additional spending between 2006 and 2009 amounted to $11 billion. While the 2010 spending totaled $5 billion, and the amount spent in 2011 totaled $6 billion.
Saniora’s effort to sum them up is aimed at pushing parliament at finding a comprehensive solution to the extra-budgetary spending.
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Hahaha ha ha ha! I'm speechless, I can just laugh. Where has he been lately, smoking opium in Teheran?
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not any worse then smoking it in Qatar and Saudi.
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just love deep comments
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Aoun is responsible for the destruction of the state in the past and history repeats itself today, especially with the electricity Lebanese don't enjoy the electricity at all as a result of Aoun's being in charge of it. Aoun allies with the terrorists and falling regimes to continue what left to destroy from hezboshaitan war in 2006. they are nothing but bad war criminals responsible for all the fail and destruction of what we have built over the years.
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ur sooo right: we used to have 24/24 electricity when HArriri was in charge and now with Bassil his private jets and owning half of Batroun it's screwed
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@mowaten
Obviously you don't know what you're talking about... "overbudget"... what was the budget ya Mowaten? How many years of "overbudget" do the 11B represent? How much "overbudget" is M8 asking for 2011 only??? With what justifications?? Please master your subject before you bluntly repeat what you heard during recess!
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of course walid beik is playing u around.
last time u run and hide in paris, next time no run no hide.
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your kids will be born with debt...great for the alibaba and the 40 angels. its despicable to even politicize this issue
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"Jumblat Was Never Part of Parliamentary Majority".. actually mon general your ignorance is only matched by your eternal and perpetual stupidity, the simple facts are if Jumblat and his MPs had not voted for Mikati for PM you would still be part of Parliamentary minority. I could get you a calculator so get little Geb can crunch the numbers for you but that would be a waste of time as facts were never your strong suit.
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ahh so you got it all figured out. but have you heard about coalitions, like for exemple between the center (Mikati Joumblat), the FPM and the 8March?
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hahaha... you just proved Euclid right!
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kesrweneh my friend you really don't need to come over here day in day out to prove to us that you are a complete idiot we already know that, in fact look up "complete idiot" is a dictionary and you will find your smiling picture giving a thumbs up next to it as a visual aid.
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Aoun your one sad man
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Don't like Aoun at all but he is right on this issue- I would love to know where the spending was and why wasn't there any concerted effort to pass a budget? Why are we covering up for the crooks...
While were at it, lets see what happened to sandoo2 il mhajareen, and the council for the development for the south; and the diesel scandal... and the rest of them
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100%
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Aoun and Jumblatt are so much alike, it is not even funny! They should merge their parties together . . .
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This guy is halucinating!!! Had it not been Jumblat's siding with M8 Aoun would still have been out of every decision making side. He should lick Jumblat's butt for him giving M8 the majority. However, Aoun is a person of no color or orientation. He sides with whoever gives him power and money. Just awhile ago he was strongly critical of Syria and with a twink of an eye he bacame just the opposite: a strong supporter of Syria's Assad. This small man is not to be trusted. I oslo think he should be stripped of his Christianity because his actions are all the way anti-Christian. he's only Christian by name. Without Huzbullah votes he wouldn't even get one MP.
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I understand why Jumblat and Al Mustaqblal al at3as men al madi are ganging up together as they were partners in the theft of the coffers while they marginalized all of the Christians, especially the ones in March 14. But for these Christians to be once again at the forefront of shielding the corrupt, the crooks and the thieves on whose hands they and their crowd suffered the most is clearly indicative of why they are spineless low-lives who care less about the rights and the well being of the decent hard-working honest Lebanese. Keep marching behind them, or more realistically, under their boots.
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that is good news for walid beik.
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The last refuge of all scoundrels is the flag. This guy, who defied the law and defied the constitution in his grab for power, now that he has some as a participant in the government demands that the law be enforced and the constitution to the letter be observed.
He is a phoney and a hypocrit to now claim to be a man of the law.
Men of the law follow the law whether it benefits them or not. Assad himself follows the law and cites it when his interests are served and trashes it when the law does not serve his interests. Aoun and Assad two pieces of sh*t cut from the same turd.
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typical loser always negative like your bank balance.. jump off a bridge
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I've said before and I'll say it again. Anyone who supports this "cl-aoun" is a fool. Our little country deserves better than this.
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Yes it deserves lady Geagea and madam Jumblatt to really screw it over real good.
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so deep and wise, really shows the depth of M14 convictions
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One more thing, if Aoun is right and Jumblatt is not part of the "Majority" then there is no M8 "Majority" he should give up his seats in the Council of Ministers.
Such an idiot this fool
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Jumblat is the only true patriotic Lebanese!!!! Oh where are the Lebanese forces??? They were the good old days, when we could smack Maronites around. Gagea was great for a hiding or two. We took their church bells & which we still have till today, but Gagea is ok with that.
He still wants to be our friend....lol as if he has any choice.
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Jumblat is the only true patriotic Lebanese!!! Oh where are the Lebanese forces now????? The good old days, when we could kick their heads in & have a laugh. Gagea came for a fight & got slaughtered, we took his church bells yet still comes back as our friend loll.. I gues he has no choice.
Alah yahmik ya Walid back
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FPM stands for nothing ya General except for protecting the rights of HA.
Unfortunatly you changed your ways and reforms to support the people whom you fought when you once had dignity, a fallen genral you are.
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Aoun has already helped himselve to enough loot, don't you remember... He took it out of his soldiers pockets, on his way to Paris.
The only dummy's are the ones who follow this deserter and what the people do not give a shit about is Aoun and his empty words.
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The thieves are caught! The crooks are caught! The thieves and crooks can run away! But the thieves and crooks cannot hide anymore especially that they fill the space with their barking! The thieves and the crooks will be dragged to the guillotine soon!
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love it to see the LF'rs and M14 losers getting so up in arms everytime General speaks. Just to spite you I will say: Go GENERAL
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Take it easy. Don't get yourself all worked up as your general does everytime Geagea has a press conference. And by your comments, there is no hope for our poor little country.
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Lebanon was promised a orange but in fact got a Syrian lemon
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Dakhil jamelak !! :)
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what a monkey
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sorry what a donkey
Z general Aoun's comedy hour...