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Tuesday, 25 May, 2021 - 05:45
Lebanon s President Michel Aoun talks to Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri during a cabinet meeting in Baabda near Beirut, Lebanon December 5, 2017. (Reuters) Beirut – Caroline Akoum
Head of Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement, MP Gebran Bassil has recently called on President Michel Aoun to hold a national dialogue, amid severe disputes over the formation of a new government.
Sources close to the president said that dialogue was one of the options on the table if the government deadlock continued, adding: “But no decision has been taken so far in this regard; the idea is being discussed and assessed because the priority now is to form a government.”
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Tuesday, 23 February, 2021 - 11:15
Former Minister Gebran Bassil. Reuters file photo Beirut - Asharq Al-Awsat
A speech made by the head of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), MP Gebran Bassil, on Sunday stirred political reactions after he spared no party his verbal attacks except for his ally, Hezbollah.
Al-Mustaqbal Movement responded to Bassil’s remarks, saying he was acting like a spokesman for President Michel Aoun, while continuing to obstruct the formation of the government.
The NBN channel, which is affiliated to Speaker Nabih Berri’s Amal Movement, described Bassil as a “political virus”, accusing him of seeking “narrow and personal interests.”
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File photo : President Michel Aoun holds a televised press conference at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut ( Nov, 20 , 20) – on 14 March 1989 Aoun declared the war of attrition and On 13 October 1989 , the Syrian forces launched a decisive operation against Aoun, invading his strongholds including the Presidential Palace in Baabda and killing hundreds of Lebanese soldiers and civilians. Leaving his family behind , Aoun fled in his pajamas to the French Embassy in Beirut where he declared his surrender and was later granted asylum in France where he lived in exile for 15 years . He returned to Lebanon after the Syrian troops withdrew in 2005 . DALATI AND NOHRA/AFP