Phalange Party Accedes to be Part of the Government, Suggests a Reform Plan for March 14
Two days after the government formation and the Phalange Party”s negative stance over getting the Social Affairs portfolio, political bureau member Sejaan Kazzi announced on Wednesday that their final decision is to be part of the government offering an additional suggestion; a reform plan for March 14.
Kazzi congratulated PM Saad Hariri with the formation of the new government and said that it had relieved the public opinion.
However, the Phalange party stated that "there has been a denial of the party”s wide representation on two levels, the national and the parliamentary one".
"The government belongs to the Lebanese nation and is not monopolized by one party or the other. Thus, the current government does not represent the majority but the parliament and since the Phalange party exists in it as an independent bloc then it should be represented as well in the government," claimed Kazzi.
Sejaan Kazzi warned that "whoever things that with embarrassing the phalange party he will break it down or throw it out then he must be disappointed".
Kazzi mentioned that the party”s first intention was "to get the Education ministry to serve the purpose of contributing to the improvement of the education and trawl it from the sectarian conflict and its lowly level out to modernization".
Regarding March 14 coalition, Phalange Party criticized its current structure and accused it of losing its weight amongst the Lebanese public opinion. Frame working their accusation, they suggested a reform plan consistent of the following points:
1. A reduced higher leadership for March 14
2. Restricting the political decisions to this leadership
3. Implementing a reform plan for the political system to work on the social changes and the void in the Taef accord.