Abul Geith: Three 10s Rejected

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Geith on Tuesday said a new 30-member government in which the opposition gets a third of the seats was “rejected.”

 

In an interview with Kuwait”s newspaper Rai al-A”am, Abul Geith stressed that the Lebanon crisis “needs an Arab solution since it is a Lebanese-Arab problem.”

 

The Arab initiative is based on a three-point plan calling for the election of army chief General Michel Suleiman as president, the formation of a national unity government in which no one party has veto power and adoption of a new electoral law.

 

Lebanon has been without a president since pro-Syrian Emile Lahoud stepped down with no elected successor because of bitter rivalry between the pro- and anti-Syrian camps.

 

Although the ruling coalition has given the Arab plan its full support, Hizbullah is insisting that the opposition have a third of the seats in a new 30-member government in order to have veto power.