Post-Election Phase More Important Than Elections
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat said Sunday that the post-election phase is "more important" than elections.
"Elections are an important phase, but more important is the post-election phase," Jumblat said during a reconciliation ceremony he sponsored in Shweifat between the family of slain Druze citizen Akram Arbid and the PSP.
"Today we put emphasis on the major Beirut-Shweifat-Dahiyeh-Mountains reconciliation," he stressed.
Shweifat has been scene of on-again-off-again tension since the killing of Arbid, an Arslan supporter, in 1996.
Arbid was allegedly beaten by PSP members while he was accompanying a candidate in the 1996 parliamentary elections.
Also present at the reconciliation ceremony were Youth and Sports Minister Talal Arslan, Transportation Minister Ghazi Aridi, MP Akram Shehayeb and Aley governor Mansour Daou.