Lebanese Positions Criticizing Mikati’s Talk of Resignation
As Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati hinted to the possibility of resigning from the government, if the issue of funding the Special Tribunal for Lebanon wasn't approved, a series of Lebanese figures commented on Mikati's position.
Change and Reform bloc Minister Fadi Abboud announced Friday that "the bloc ministers are "more frustrated in current Mikati's government than they were in Saad Hariri's."
Reiterating that the Bloc has repeatedly rejected that Lebanon funds the unconstitutional Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Abboud called for finding legal and constitutional outcomes.
Asked about the possibility of resignation from the government if STL funding was approved, Aboud said that "all things are possible and options are open."
For his part, former PM Salim Hoss considered that "PM Najib Mikati's threatening with resignation in the event of failure to secure the necessary funding for the STL puts the country on the brink of a crisis with unknown dimensions."
In a statement made on behalf of "National Unity Platform", Hoss viewed that "Lebanon had a broad and well-founded judicial system that can be effective. Why the international tribunal? But, regardless of the Lebanese need for it, half of tribunal's financing lies on Lebanon."
"If Lebanon did not agree on STL's existence, it is not obliged to contribute to its funding," he stressed.
Wondering "why the Lebanese judiciary cannot do the STL job," Hoss reminded that "it is doing so in the case of late former PM Rashid Karami."
Source:NNA, Translated and Edited by moqawama.org
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