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Aoun demands sovereign portfolio, will not back down
Source: Daily Star, 10-06-2008
On Monday, Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun said his party would join the new cabinet despite pressure on it to stay away.
"Not yielding to our demands aims at pressuring us in hope that we will decide not to take part in the new cabinet, but this will not happen," Aoun said after a meeting of the Reform and Change parliamentary bloc, which he heads.
Aoun reiterated that his request to receive the post of the Finance Ministry was justified.
"I don't understand [the ruling bloc's] attitude when it comes to the Finance Ministry ... They are acting as if they own the ministry, while we know that it is only normal for any ministry to be rotated among the different parties," Aoun said.
Saniora was quoted as saying earlier that he would rather go home than relinquish control of the Finance Ministry.
Aoun, who is angling to get five of the 11 ministries promised to the March 8 camp, earlier demanded to get the portfolios of finance, public works, social affairs, health and either industry or agriculture.
While the Finance Ministry is considered a sovereign portfolio, the other four are all service-related portfolios. Aoun said that some parties were rushing to get such ministries with aim of making gains instead of delivering services to people.
Opposition March 8 sources quoted Aoun as telling As-Safir on Monday that he had made a clear decision not to participate in any government in which he was not granted a sovereign portfolio. A leading opposition member told the paper that Aoun would refuse any attempt to make him abandon his demand for a sovereign portfolio in exchange for service-related portfolios in cabinet.
"This is a decision that Aoun will not back down from, no matter what the consequences are," he said.
The opposition member said that Berri and Hizbullah both backed Aoun's demand.
As The Daily Star went to press, the Lebanese Army announced that it had detained 14 people after a clash between what it described as two families in Raouda, a village near the Masnaa border crossing with Syria. Three people were hurt in the violence. The army posited no explanation for the clash.
On Monday, Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun said his party would join the new cabinet despite pressure on it to stay away.
"Not yielding to our demands aims at pressuring us in hope that we will decide not to take part in the new cabinet, but this will not happen," Aoun said after a meeting of the Reform and Change parliamentary bloc, which he heads.
Aoun reiterated that his request to receive the post of the Finance Ministry was justified.
"I don't understand [the ruling bloc's] attitude when it comes to the Finance Ministry ... They are acting as if they own the ministry, while we know that it is only normal for any ministry to be rotated among the different parties," Aoun said.
Saniora was quoted as saying earlier that he would rather go home than relinquish control of the Finance Ministry.
Aoun, who is angling to get five of the 11 ministries promised to the March 8 camp, earlier demanded to get the portfolios of finance, public works, social affairs, health and either industry or agriculture.
While the Finance Ministry is considered a sovereign portfolio, the other four are all service-related portfolios. Aoun said that some parties were rushing to get such ministries with aim of making gains instead of delivering services to people.
Opposition March 8 sources quoted Aoun as telling As-Safir on Monday that he had made a clear decision not to participate in any government in which he was not granted a sovereign portfolio. A leading opposition member told the paper that Aoun would refuse any attempt to make him abandon his demand for a sovereign portfolio in exchange for service-related portfolios in cabinet.
"This is a decision that Aoun will not back down from, no matter what the consequences are," he said.
The opposition member said that Berri and Hizbullah both backed Aoun's demand.
As The Daily Star went to press, the Lebanese Army announced that it had detained 14 people after a clash between what it described as two families in Raouda, a village near the Masnaa border crossing with Syria. Three people were hurt in the violence. The army posited no explanation for the clash.
