We Didn”t Leave March 14 to Join Opposition
MP Alaeddine Terro said Thursday that the Progressive Socialist Party did not withdraw from the majority coalition to join opposition ranks and stressed the party holds onto the international tribunal and its alliance with Premier-designate Saad Hariri.
"We the Progressive Socialist Party and the Democratic Gathering didn”t withdraw from the March 14 forces to join the March 8 alliance … Furthermore, we didn”t enter into dialogue with the opposition over the country”s problems in order to enter into a dispute with our allies and friends in the Mustaqbal movement and other parties," Terro said during a sports festival.
He stressed that the PSP will not give up support for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and the prosecution of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri”s suspected assassins.
Terro also said that the PSP will continue to support consolidation of national unity and dialogue away from sectarian tensions.
On the 2005 Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, the MP said: "Occupation will not return and diplomatic relations (with Damascus) are a Lebanese demand since independence."
"What we want is preventing division and formation of independent groupings that back the president and the prime minister," Terro said, adding "We will not give up on our alliance with the majority premier."