Kesrouan Moves toward Joint Independents-March14 Election Ticket
Kesrouan was moving toward forming a joint list of independent parliamentary candidates and March 14 forces, the daily An Nahar reported Monday.
Pan-Arab Al Hayat newspaper said, meanwhile, that contacts were underway to set up a ticket that includes former MPs Mansour al-Bon, Fares Bouiz, Fares Haikal al-Khazen and Phalange party official Sejaan Qazzi.
Others were demanding the nomination of a fifth candidate, al Hayat said.
As Safir newspaper, for its part, said Gen. Michel Aoun”s Free Patriotic Movement Kesrouan electoral list was facing difficulties due to "conflicting accounts" in light of negotiations between independent candidates and political parties that make up the March 14 coalition.
It quoted well-informed sources from March 14 as saying Bouiz” stance has opened room for the possibility of including him on the Kesrouan list.
The obstacle, however, was due to the "lack of enthusiasm by Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea to cooperate with Bouiz," according to one source.