Support for the resistance "the natural thing to do"
MP Michel Aoun on Monday said the March 14 alliance was growing weaker and March 14 Forces were growing weaker and described as "natural" recent comments by MP Walid Jumblat.
"We watch comfortably as March 14 ranks grow weaker," Aoun said following the weekly meeting of his Change and Reform bloc.
"The only common factor that brought together the March 14 forces is external. This factor is starting to break up leaving them without a national strategy to follow," he said.
"In the meantime, they are still stuck in power struggle," Aoun added.
Aoun said "he expected noting better" from Jumblat, who described the Maronites as being "useless."
"It is only natural that he says that," Aoun said, adding he was not waiting for an apology from the Druze MP.
"Jumblat”s allies are the ones who should ask for an apology, not me," he added.
Aoun said that a disagreement with Speaker Nabih Berri over candidates "was purely election-related and will end in agreement."
The head of the Free Patriotic Movement defended his support for the resistance as "the natural thing to do."
"It was through resistance that we abolished the saying “Lebanon”s strength lies in its weakness.” The weak Lebanon is dead and today we have to safeguard Lebanon”s strength," he said.
On Minister Nassib Lahoud”s dropping out of the race, Aoun said "the hidden implication of the withdrawal is more important then the act itself because it indicates the lack of self-esteem within the alliance."
Concluding his press conference, Aoun named Joseph Shahda as FPM”s candidate in Akkar.