Several Ministers breach their authority for the elections
MP Boutros Harb protested to Prime Minister Fouad Siniora about the alleged actions of some ministers, who are “using their ministries, capabilities and authority to serve the interests of their electoral campaigns.”
Following the visit to Siniora, Harb said “I asked PM Siniora to ask his ministers to quit these practices. We will not turn a blind eye.”
Harb said that he also discussed with Siniora the latest attacks on the judiciary, and he said that he asked the PM and the cabinet to defend the judiciary.
He said that such attacks are dangerous indications of “attempts to topple the current political system in Lebanon and disrupt the democratic system that ensures the people’s freedoms and the role of the state constitution.”
Harb described the opposition’s approach to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon “significant and dangerous… and a pull back from the commitments and agreements which were reached in the national dialogue sessions, or in Doha, which called for accepting the decisions of the STL positively.”
He went on to say that “any Lebanese party that rejects STL decisions is revoking the national entente which we reached in the dialogue sessions on this issue … to preserve Lebanon’s unity.”