Kesrouan Results 2009 Likely to Be Better Than 2005
Free Patriotic Movement leader Gen. Michel Aoun said Monday that he anticipates results in Kesrouan elections to be better than four years ago.
"I expect better results in elections compared to 2005 in Kesrouan and Ftouh," Aoun told reporters following his bloc”s weekly meeting.
"We are relaxed in other districts with regards to election results," he added.
Aoun said his Change and Reform bloc will not hold its weekly meeting next week. "We will return after the elections."
Turning to the imminent Israeli military exercise, Aoun said: "We do not fear an Israeli military operation. Israel will not risk entering an operation when the results are in doubt because it will be its end.
Regarding his political foe Walid Jumblat, Aoun said the Druze leader "changed his political path and realized he lost the battle on the domestic, regional and international levels."
He said the platform of the majority March 14 alliance is "based on disagreements amongst them."
"Such vacuum cannot reach a position of power. The state did not resolve any problem in the past four years," Aoun stated.
He believed that foreign press coverage of international news "is not more honorable than Lebanese press coverage of elections."
Aoun said he was seeking "friendship with everybody."
"We do not want to be enemies of anyone. But when a state is not on good terms with another, we cannot bear the consequences. Our interests come first," he stressed.
Aoun said he "welcome" the brief visit by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to Lebanon last week.
"But we do not favor his meetings with the ruling party. He revealed his cards by doing so and maybe he has come to bid them farewell," he complained.