Edde to Confront Aoun in Kesrouan
Kesrouan is heading towards a showdown as Free Patriotic Movement leader Gen. Michel Aoun is running in the elections for the Maronite seat and amid reports that National Bloc Party leader Carlos Edde is planning to announce his candidacy in the district.
An Nahar newspaper said Saturday that the competition will be strong in Kesrouan in the June 7 elections as Edde is getting ready to announce his candidacy. Edde and Aoun have in the past few years been at loggerheads over "basic internal issues."
The daily quoted sources close to Edde as saying that the National Bloc Party leader is seeking to run his campaign under the banner of "confronting Hizbullah”s project," although "he hasn”t made a final decision yet."
The sources said Edde will launch his party”s election campaign in Jbeil on Saturday.
It said MP Fares Boueiz will be on Aoun”s list in Kesrouan and will be replaced by MP Nihmatallah Abi Nasr. But the latter denied all reports that he was not a candidate on the ticket in the upcoming elections. "These are media rumors," he said during an interview with OTV on Friday.
Former MP Mansour Ghanem al-Bon, in his turn, will be on Edde”s list which is in the formation process, according to An Nahar.