Kabbara says March 14 Not as it was

Source: Nowlebanon, 17-03-2008
The Tripoli bloc should have been a key participant in the drafting of the March 14 memorandum launched at the Spring of Lebanon 2008 conference this week, especially as Public Works Minister Mohammad Safadi was one of the cornerstones of the March 14 forces, according to bloc member MP Mohammed Kabbara.
"We are surprised at being excluded from the document and at MP Abdul Aziz's telephone call, which informed us of the date of the conference and invited us to be part of the audience," Kabbara said.
In an interview with the National News Agency, Kabbara said the March 14 forces exclusively distributed power quotas among three persons, namely MPs Saad Hariri and Walid Jumblatt and Samir Geagea.
"The Tripoli bloc, far more than others, sought to abolish exclusive agencies. This is what we worked on with Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri... The policies and positions of March 14 adopt exclusive agencies, and this is impermissible," he added.
On whether the bloc intended on leaving the March 14 coalition, Kabbara said his position had nothing to do with the Tripoli bloc's presence in March 14. "March 14 is the spirit and principles, not the people," he clarified, "and work within this alliance is not as it was before."
"There are adversaries, such as some Future bloc MPs, whose leaders make decisions which are accepted by extension," Kabbara continued. He said sych mentalities did not apply to the Tripoli bloc, which made its own free decisions.