Aoun Announces Shouf, Aley Candidates, Promises Saniora of “Investigation”
MP Michel Aoun on Saturday announced the list of candidates running in the districts of Shouf and Aley and said the prime minister will be facing an "investigation" over mismanagement.
The Reform and Change bloc nominated Zaher al-Khateeb, Mario Aoun, Nassif Qazi, Antoine Boustani, Abdou Munthir and Bahaa Abdel Khaleq in the district of Shouf, Aoun said in a press conference. Antoun al-Zugbi and Cesar Abi Khalil were the bloc”s contenders in Aley, he added.
Aoun later took a jab at the parliamentary majority accusing his rivals of "corruption" during a meeting with a student delegation from Sagesse University.
He singled out the prime minister saying Fouad Saniora”s "term in office will be the focus of an investigation into major breaches."
He said Lebanon”s youth face a bleak future due to the "discouraging" economic situation in the country.
"The majority fabricates disputes in order to validate its actions. No one from the parliamentary majority should be returned to parliament," he told his visitors.
"The majority is corrupt and has committed major crimes against the Lebanese administration by carrying out haphazard employments," Aoun said.
He told the students he "[smelled a bad stench] that the parliamentary majority is trying to place its hands over state institutions as was previously done in Beirut."
"When a thief becomes a charity provider [remember] that the mafia godfather always sits at the church”s front pews, he donates $1 million while robbing us of $1 billion," Aoun said.
The Free Patriotic Movement leader pointed to his political rival al-Mustaqbal Movement”s electoral slogan “The future is where you spend the rest of your life” saying: "I like this slogan, it reminds me of a home for the aged."
He ended by expressing hope that Lebanon”s "resurrection will come to take the country from one stage to another and to eliminate the after effects of the economic and developmental crisis."