Hezbollah calls for unity govt
Lebanon: Hezbollah has called on new Lebanese Prime Minister Najib
Mikati to form a national unity Government while former Prime Minister
Saad Hariri’s supporters have resorted to violence.
Hezbollah and its allies in the March 8 Alliance, which includes Amal
and the Free Patriotic Movement, will try to form a national unity
government, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has
said.
“We don’t seek to (exclude) anyone,” Nasrallah stated in a televised
speech late Monday night, on the eve of Parliamentary talks between
Lebanese President Michel Sleiman and lawmakers from the 128-seat
Parliament. “The Lebanese people have a real chance to unite without
winners or losers,” Nasrallah said on Tuesday.
The government headed by Saad Hariri of the March 14 Alliance
collapsed on January 12 over a United Nations inquiry into the
assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, Saad’s father, when
the March 8 Alliance Ministers resigned from the Cabinet. Nasrallah
thanked Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, who said last week he would support
Hezbollah and its allies in the Parliamentary talks to choose a new
Premier.
Jumblatt was once a key ally of former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad
Hariri.
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