Aoun Demands Six Ministers, Wants Ministry of Interior
“Change and Reform” leader MP Michel Aoun renewed his insistence on obtaining his share of six ministers at the new government. Aoun stressed his desire to have the Interior Ministry saying it is in need of deep-rooted reform.
In an interview with the daily An-Nahar on Saturday, Aoun said: "I won”t provide anyone with anything from my own pocket," adding," I don”t believe the Prime Minister-designate is carrying out any visible activity to form a government."
However, he commended the parliamentary majority”s initiative for forming a national unity government "to spare Lebanon any dangers."
"All parties participated in the [parliamentary] elections, so let every party take its share in the new government according to their gains [in parliament]," Aoun said.
The Free Patriotic Movement leader added, "Up to now we don”t know the number of ministers in the new government, nor do we know how the various government portfolios would be distributed."
He wondered how this whole process could be done before month”s end.
Aoun believes Lebanon”s problem is Middle Eastern by nature "It is not the number of ministers in government that brings in French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner to Lebanon…this is not what brings the Americans, French, saudi and Syrians."