Candidate for the Beirut I district’s Greek Orthodox seat, Nayla Tueni, said that through the assassination of her father, former MP Gebran Tueni, “they wanted to make people desperate and kill enthusiasm.” She added, however, that “this should not happen and safety should be our weapon to confront anyone who wants to jeopardize the country.”
During a meeting with citizens from Ashrafieh, Rmeil and Saifi on Saturday, Tueni told them they would have the chance to have their say “for the first time in decades” during the upcoming parliamentary elections. Tueni promised to fulfill the district’s basic demands upon arriving in parliament, regarding the issue of Beirut’s seaside, health insurance as well as other problems.
Tueni said the electoral picture had become clear in the Beirut I district, whereby the March 14 alliance’s list would include current Future MP Michel Pharaon, Nadim Gemayel and herself facing the opposition’s list. She noted that both lists were still waiting to clarify their Armenian candidates.
Tueni said the March 14 alliance had paid in blood for its independent and sovereign stance. She called for preserving the March 14 alliance’s legacy, recalling when hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in Martyrs’ Square in 2005.
She said March 14 was a group of principles and ideas whose naming might change, however the basics for which they struggled would remain unchanged.
Tueni urged the attendees to remain in contact with her, and express their ideas and projects in order to achieve objectives “hand in hand.”
She said Lebanese-Syrian relations had to be natural and normal, noting that if she became an MP she would deploy all her efforts to raise people’s voice and demands.