Aoun responds to "angry, nervous" reactions

Source: nowlebanon.com, 18-06-2006

Free Patriotic Movement leader General Michel Aoun responded to the chain of reactions that followed his statements in a press conference on Monday.

"There is no distinction between reform and power. If power is a matter of position, reform is a matter of feasibility and effectiveness, so [I] intended merely to separate implementation from control, which is taken for granted in the most basic rules of public administration," Aoun said.

The type of response to an OTV reporter, Aoun said his proposal to strip the prime minister of some of his power was "launched from the logic of reform rather than sectarian logic."

Unfortunately, he continued, any logical proposal is met with "backward, angry" responses.