Hizbullah is Trying in Vain to Block Cabinet Formation
March 14 General Secretariat Coordinator Fares Soaid responded to Hizbullah accusations that the majority was "fabricating crises" by insisting the Shiite group is to be blamed for blocking Cabinet formation.
"Tonight we have discovered that Hizbullah has added to its heroic demands … another heroic condition which is the appointment of Gen. Michel Aoun”s son-in-law Jebran Bassil" in the new government, Soaid said.
"Hizbullah is trying in vain to block the formation of a government by laying the blame on March 14 secretariat general," Soaid added.
He was reacting to a Hizbullah statement issued Thursday night in which it accused March 14 forces of "fabricating crises."
Hizbullah”s remarks came in response to a statement Wednesday by March 14 in which the secretariat general called on the Opposition to help solve what it described as "the Aoun problem."
Hizbullah said there is "no such thing as the “Aoun problem,”" adding that the Free Patriotic Movement leader has "natural rights."
Aoun "has the right to nominate to Cabinet whoever he saw fit," Hizbullah said.