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Aoun to LF: Those Who Crawl for Seats Should Tolerate Insults
Source: Al-Manar TV, 20-4-2009
The head of the Change and Reform MP Michel Aoun said on Monday that the March 14 alliance was growing weaker and March 14 Forces were growing weaker and described as "natural" recent comments by the head of the Democratic Gathering MP Walid Jumblatt.
"We watch comfortably as March 14 ranks grow weaker," Aoun told reporters following the weekly meeting of his parliamentary bloc. "The only common factor that brought together the March 14 forces is external. This factor is starting to break up leaving them without a national strategy to follow," he said. "In the meantime, they are still stuck in power struggle," Aoun added.
The Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader said "he expected noting better" from the Progressive Socialist Party leader, in reference to MP Walid Jumblatt who described the Maronites as being "useless."
"It is only natural that he says that," Aoun said, adding he was not waiting for an apology from the Druze MP. "Jumblat's allies are the ones who should ask for an apology, not me," he added, noting that "those who are crawling for parliamentary seats should tolerate insults," in reference to the Lebanese Forces.
Aoun said that a disagreement with Speaker Nabih Berri over candidates "was purely election-related and will end in agreement." He defended his support for the resistance as the natural thing to do."
"It was through resistance that we abolished the saying 'Lebanon's strength lies in its weakness.' The weak Lebanon is dead and today we have to safeguard Lebanon's strength," he said.
On Minister Nassib Lahoud's dropping out of the race, Aoun said "the hidden implication of the withdrawal is more important then the act itself because it indicates the lack of self-esteem within the March 14 alliance."
Concluding his press conference, Aoun named Joseph Shahda as FPM's candidate in Akkar.
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