MP Mustafa Allouch: Nasrallah wants to drive Lebanon off the edge
MP Mustafa Allouch of the Future Movement said that regardless of the constitutional debate, the government is not taking over the presidential authorities. It will be forced to bear such a responsibility if a new head of state
is not elected soon, he added.
“If Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and his allies are disturbed with this situation, let them facilitate the election of a new president,” Allouch told NOW Lebanon.
Commenting on Nasrallah’s threats that March 8 will launch a civil-disobedience campaign, Allouch said that the opposition is only familiar with negative measures.
He noted that Nasrallah took on responsibility for any clashes that might take place when he declared that he can only guarantee Hezbollah’s reaction to any events that take place, not the other opposition factions’.
“The one who starts a fire but says that he cannot control it is the one to be held responsible,” Allouch declared.
He also accused Nasrallah of pushing Lebanon toward the edge, as it has been doing over the last year and a half. “Hezbollah has its own supporters. If Lebanon is to fall down, so will they.”
Allouch denounced Nasrallah’s statement where he said that the opposition represents more than half of the
Lebanese population.
“I don’t know where he got this figure from. But irrespective of popular minorities and majorities, which can be sometimes imprecise, we are still operating within a system of minorities and majorities within the parliament; this is the only place to count them,” Allouch said.
He also noted that the West was not part of March 14’s choice of a simple-majority-elected president.
“When they became convinced of this choice, as declared by US President George Bush, we did not take their advice,” he said in response to accusations against March 14 for being dependent on the US.
He also called on the Lebanese to have faith in their country.
“We must not be afraid of those seeking to drive Lebanon back to the situation that reigned in 1976 and paved the way for the Syrian occupation of Lebanon,” Allouch said.