{"id":26600,"date":"2018-12-22T23:22:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T23:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26600"},"modified":"2018-12-22T23:22:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T23:22:55","slug":"palestinian-president-to-dissolve-parliament-hamas-irate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26600","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian president to dissolve parliament, Hamas irate"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

\nBEIRUT: The six Sunni deputies allied with Hezbollah have opposed the candidate Jawad Adra, whom they had agreed earlier as their representative in the next Lebanese government, which has hampered the formation of the government.<\/p>\n

\nAccording to the initiative put forward by President Michel Aoun, Adra would have entered the government as a member of the president\u2019s bloc after the prime minister-designate, Saad Hariri, refused to have the minister in his bloc. Adra did not attend the meeting called on Friday by the six deputies to inform him of the need to abide by their position, which is that although he would be part of the president\u2019s bloc, he would represent the position of the six deputies rather than that of the President in the government.<\/p>\n

\nThe Lebanese media reported that the six deputies were \u201cdeceived,\u201d while the pro-Hezbollah media accused Gebran Bassil, minister of foreign affairs, of \u201ctrying to have Adra join the Strong Lebanon bloc, which may set back the formation of a government.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\u201cPresident Aoun\u2019s candidate has to be committed to the president,\u201d said Yacoub Sarraf, defense minister in the caretaker government and a loyal supporter of the president.<\/p>\n

\nThe pro-Hezbollah \u201cAl-Akhbar\u201d daily reported that: \u201cThe choice of the name of Adra, among the many names put forward by the six deputies, came out of Hezbollah\u2019s and the Amal movement\u2019s wish to satisfy Aoun, who made the offer of a ministerial seat, by proposing someone with a good relationship with him (the president) and Bassi, instead of choosing a member of the March 8 Alliance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nIt is worth noting that Adra was proposed by one of the six deputies, Qasim Hashim, who is a member of the parliamentary bloc of Speaker Nabih Berri.<\/p>\n

\nParliamentary sources told Arab News that the main problem is \u201cthe question of who gets the \u2018blocking third\u2019 in the government, that is, who is the decision-maker. It is a secret conflict between Hezbollah and the Free Patriotic Movement, who are supposed to be political allies according to a previous agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nPresident Aoun, Minister Gebran Bassil and General Director of Public Security Major General Abbas Ibrahim met on Sunday in the presidential palace.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nMajor General Ibrahim was commissioned by Aoun a few days ago to publicize his initiative to resolve the Sunni problem inside the government.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nIbrahim was able to convince the six deputies to name an external figure to represent them in the government because of Prime Minister Hariri\u2019s refusal to accept one of them.<\/p>\n

\nSpeaker Nabih Berri also met Prime Minister Hariri in private.<\/p>\n

\nAt the end of these meetings, Maj. Gen. Ibrahim said he had completed his mission \u201cand the ball is now in the court of political forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nThe name of Ali Hamad has emerged as a substitute for Adra. Hamad is the director of presidential affairs in the Lebanese Parliament, and his name had been proposed by MP Qasim Hashim as an alternative to Adra to represent the six deputies.<\/p>\n

\nThe parliamentary sources pointed to a second problem that may face the process of forming the government. This \u201cconcerns the distribution of ministerial portfolios and the desire of certain parties to replace some portfolios with others. The problem revolves around the of the Media, Environment, Culture, Industry, Agriculture and Works ministries.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nWalid Jumblatt, leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, tweeted that \u201cIt seems that the national unity government is no longer recognized locally. After consultation, there seems to be a need for further consultation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BEIRUT: The six Sunni deputies allied with Hezbollah have opposed the candidate Jawad Adra, whom they had agreed earlier as their representative in the next Lebanese government, which has hampered the formation of the government. According to the initiative put forward by President Michel Aoun, Adra would have entered the government as a member of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}