Sfeir Protects Corruption, When Did Weapons Hurt Him?
Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun said on Wednesday that Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir is protecting those practicing corruption inside the state. He also asked Sfeir if weapons have ever hurt him.
After the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc, Aoun commented on the reports saying Israel navy intercepted a ship full of arms bound to Hizbullah. "We are free to bring weapons whether the news were right or not," said the FPM leader.
"Israel occupied Palestine through violence, so let them get off our back … We will get arms if not from Iran then from China," added Aoun.
Aoun said that if he had enough money he would”ve bought arms to liberate Palestine and not to use in the Lebanese interior.
Answering a question on reports that supposedly revealed a stormy meeting between him and his counterpart in Marada movement Suleiman Franjieh about concessions, Aoun labeled them as false saying "we are not each other”s clones; each has an opinion of his own".
Regarding cabinet formation, FPM leader said that they did not "name any portfolios or ministries".
"Since we still haven”t gotten any ministry, we will not offer any name. I did not nominate Jibran Bassil as Telecoms Minister. He will be a minister for sure, but I am the one who chooses which portfolio he will handle," said Aoun.
"We will not reveal what has been agreed upon so far. Telecommunications and Energy have gotten afloat but the rest is still being discussed," added the FPM leader.
Aoun tackled the issue of the student elections held at USJ university, he said the opposition and its allies got 2314 votes, while the majority only gained 1839; whereas the independents got 39 votes.
"We have the vote numbers of the students” elections at Universite Saint Joseph (USJ); yet they claim we have lost. If we calculate the faculties we won against the faculties we lost, we will find that we claimed more faculties and more votes," said Aoun.