Jumblat Meets Gemayel Amid Efforts to Expand Centrist Forces

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat is reportedly exerting efforts to expand the “centrist” bloc in the country that mainly includes President Michel Suleiman and Premier-designate Najib Miqati and Jumblat.

An Nahar newspaper reported that the PSP leader invited Phalange party leader Amin Gemayel to dinner at his residence in Clemenceau on Thursday in his ongoing efforts to expand the “centrist force” in the country.

Meanwhile, sources told al-Liwaa newspaper that the Druze leader’s latest escalatory stances are due to “an important development” locally.

They said that Jumblat received “signals from economic and financial authorities, some close to the Central Bank, warning that the economic situation will reach a critical status if the political forces didn’t try” to close their ranks.