Raad: Elections are important but not the end of the world

Source: Hizbullah Staff, 07-03-2009

Head of the "Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc," MP Mohammad Raad, declared that opposition candidates lists "are those who carry our project in the confrontation, who form a pillar in confronting the projects of hegemony the others want to impose."

He said: "We are not fighting a battle of one parliamentary seat against another, but of one political identity in the face of another political identity. We are also fighting the battle of stabilizing national accord, without allowing foreign sides to interfere in this accord."

He added "Despite everything that happened so far, judicial appointments were issued yesterday according to decree that had been issued during a time of national division, and not according to the requirements of the national accord."

He reiterated saying that: "If we achieve majority, we will offer our partners placements in government, because we do not want to cancel out anyone at all, nor do we want anyone marginalized. Our policy is of fostering and reaching out."

He called for "reducing inflammatory rhetoric in the media ", stressing that "the elections are important and essential, but are not the end of the world, whatever the outcome."