Jumblat Cautions: Void Encourages Terror

Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat cautioned on Monday that maintaining presidential void could encourage terror and called for electing a new head of state as soon as possible.

 

“Void doesn”t benefit anybody. On the contrary it could form an environment friendly to terror and killing … so is it logical to maintain void pending a political agreement? This is illogical,” Jumblat wrote in an editorial to be published Tuesday by His party”s mouthpiece, al-Anbaa weekly.

 

Jumblat stressed that the Lebanese people are “required today, more than before, to confirm their adherence to the state … in line with the Taif accord … that protects the formula of power sharing.”

 

That was an apparent a rejection by the PSP leader to alleged plans by the Hizbullah-led opposition to topple the Taif accord and the half-Christian, half-Muslim power sharing formula.

 

Jumblat said Army Commander Gen. Michel Suleiman is “a consensus candidate … he carried out significant efforts in safeguarding stability, combating terrorism at Nahr al-Bared, protecting the resistance and confronting Israel.”