Fadlallah: Opposition will run for elections in order to win parliamentary majority

Source: Hizbollah Staff, 06-03-2009

The member of Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Hassan Fadlallah saw "that parliamentary elections would produce an executive political authority for the next four years on new foundations and principles based in partnership with the other team, through a parliamentary majority we seek to win."

During a political electoral campaign gathering of the people, of the southern village of R'shaf residing in Beirut, Fadlallah confirmed that "the opposition will run for elections as a united opposition in constituencies where we (the opposition) are running candidacy lists."

He said "regardless of who takes the majority in the House of Representatives, they will not be able to govern alone", while pointing at the same time that "in the event the others reject partnership and insist on that rejection, as a result they will have walked out, in isolation, on the principle of partnership and the logic of agreement", he continued: "what we have been saying in the opposition, we will continue to commit ourselves to when we are in the majority."

On the inter-Arab issue, Fadlallah said, "We have always been advocates of Arab reconciliations, welcoming any inter-Arab convergence, which benefits and relieves Lebanon as it does the rest of the Arab situation", drawing attention to "the challenges facing the Arab world, the most significant of which is the main and only challenge, the ‘Israeli' enemy. When the Arabs were scattered the enemy singled them out in more than one area."

In conclusion, MP Fadlallah inquired, "The Lebanese forces that have benefited from this Arab dispute, which they exploited by releasing inflammatory mobilization rhetoric from Lebanon against the Arabs; what will they do now that the Arabs are reconciling? Shouldn't they make re-evaluations, especially with regard to Lebanon's relationship with Syria?"