Michel Mouawad, a presidential candidate, has lashed out at Speaker Nabih Berri following the latter’s description of him as an “in vitro experiment” candidate.
Accusing Berri of usurping the parliament speakership for the previous 30 years, Mouawad mentioned that Berri’s remarks “befit him as a militiaman”.
In an interview with al-Akhbar newspaper printed on Thursday, Berri acknowledged that “Our candidate is critical and we’ve got repeatedly insisted on him, whereas their candidate is merely an in vitro experiment.”
Mouawad responded to Berri’s feedback by saying that they carried an tried insult towards his father, slain President Rene Mouawad, and all of the MPs and blocs that voted for the younger lawmaker within the newest presidential election classes.
He additionally referred to as on Marada Motion chief Sleiman Frangieh, the candidate of Berri’s camp, to make clear whether or not he accepts “the insult towards Zgharta and the North.”
Moreover, Mouawad criticized Berri as a “grasp of corruption that transcends presidential tenures and governments”.
He acknowledged that the Lebanese individuals don’t forget and won’t overlook Nabih Berri’s militia practices, his siege of Beirut, its individuals, and financial system, and his invasion on Could seventh.
The media workplace of the President of the Independence Motion, MP Michel Moawad, issued an announcement by which it described Berri’s phrases as “unworthy of the pinnacle of the parliamentary establishment, however relatively befitting a militiaman”.
The assertion added that Berri’s try to insult President Rene Moawad, the martyr of the Republic, is an insult directed in any respect the MPs and blocs who voted for MP Michel Moawad within the presidential elections.
It says it additionally not directly targets Zgharta Al-Zawiya and the North, which they characterize within the parliament and the place Rene Moawad and Nayla Moawad have at all times represented them properly.
Mouawad additional criticized Berri as a professor of corruption that spans throughout eras and governments, and is the largest associate in all of the sectarian divisions since 1992 and even earlier than the Taif settlement.
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He added that the Lebanese individuals mock the ’51 % joke’ and the information of electrical energy, diesel, and all of the reconstruction of the South, and his council that reeks.
He’s precisely the pinnacle of the successive parliamentary councils that by no means held the federal government accountable or punished the corrupt, and prompted the waste of billions of {dollars}, the theft of the livelihoods of the Lebanese individuals, and the stuffing of the administration with accountants and thugs.
Mouawad concluded by saying that the present council has proven resistance to Berri personally and what he represents by way of efficiency.
After Berri turned the council presidency right into a sectarian den protected against individuals’s anger by militia practices, he remained in his place with solely 65 votes.
Mouawad ended by stating that the tip of this time period is close to, which is able to seemingly come as welcome information to many Lebanese individuals.
