Aoun Threatens to Boycott Dialogue
Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun on Monday threatened to boycott national dialogue if a proposed ban on candidacy of municipal council members for parliamentary elections was amended.
"Let them then solve problems without me," he told reporters after the weekly meeting by members of his Change and reform parliamentary bloc at his residence in Rabiyeh.
The election law bill currently under consideration by a parliamentary committee has banned members of municipal councils from running for parliamentary elections unless they had resigned before two years.
The ban was initially proposed by Hizbullah and its allies to avoid competition from several municipal council members who back the March 14 majority alliance.