Aoun says no veto against Berri-Hariri meeting

Source: NowLebanon, 02-05-2008
Head of the Change and Reform bloc MP Michel Aoun confirmed that he would not "veto any meeting that brings together MP Saad Hariri and Speaker Nabih Berri."
In a phone interview with the Al-Manar channel, the MP refused to comment on Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butrous Sfeir's oblique attacks on him. Aoun did, however, ask Nasrallah to point his accusations at the government in response to the Patriarch's statement that all MPs who refused to elect a president were responsible for disrupting order in the country.
Aoun said the election of a president was linked to political understanding on a national-unity government formula and electoral law, contrary to what the pro-government forces argued.
Aoun said that the pro-government alliance's behavior was an "obvious attempt to kill time" and revealed their insistence on monopolizing positions of power. Aoun also said the ruling coalition wanted to maintain the 2000 electoral law as any caza-based law worked to their detriment.
He also noted that he had asked Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa to "convince the government" that the Lebanese people had the "right to participate and to a fair electoral law."