Insistence on Veto Power Is Indirect Effort to Amend Taef
The March 14 Forces accused on Wednesday parliamentary minority of trying to "indirectly amend the Taef accord" by insisting on maintaining veto power.
In a statement following its regular meeting, the Forces” general secretariat stressed the need for the majority to "handle executive power while minority should fulfill its tasks" as done in all democracies. It said that any insistence on behalf of the parliamentary minority to hold veto power is "an indirect attempt to amend the Taef accord and is a flagrant violation of constitutional provisions."
The March 14 Forces called for the elimination of "security zones" in Beirut to pave the way for the government to maintain security across Lebanon calling on the security services to deal with violators of the law with an "iron fist."
The statement said that March 14 "sympathizes with the Lebanese and shares their sentiments of concern and anger following a series of dangerous security incidents" the latest of which was Wednesday”s discovery of the bullet-riddled body of Middle East Airlines pilot, Ghassan Hassan Miqdad.