March 14 Going Ahead with Suleiman Election amidst Opposition Challenge

As the majority March 14 alliance pushed for electing Gen. Michel Suleiman, with reports it could meet very soon to fulfill the need to fill the presidential void, the opposition seemed more clung to its preconditions.

The daily An Nahar on Sunday, citing a governmental source, said the cabinet could meet in the next few hours in order to confront the presidential vacuum.

 

The source said the cabinet would also take appropriate measures to fill the vacant presidential seat and “exert maximum efforts to bring Suleiman to the presidency.”

He said in the forefront of these measures is a call for an extraordinary parliamentary session, to be put in the form of a draft law, in the event that the ordinary session set for Dec. 29 to elect a new president ended without success.

 

A ministerial source, however, said the move to deal with the presidential void is to fend off the Syrian scheme which “wants to push Lebanon into the abyss of a vacuum so that its institutions would disappear, the army would scatter and the country would plunge into chaos.”