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Walid Jumblatt warns against handing Lebanon over to the Syrian-Iranian axis
The Asharq Al-Awsat reported, the head of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), Walid Jumblatt, warned against “falling into the mistake of handing over the country to the Syrian-Iranian axis.”
Speaking at the party’s 48th general conference on Sunday, Jumblatt said that the reasons for the government’s failure to convene “are no longer a secret,” pointing to attempts to obstruct the investigations into the Beirut port explosion.
Head of Lebanon's Progressive Socialist Party Walid Jumblatt/Facebook pageHe noted: “They linked the government’s meeting with the investigation into the explosion of the port of Beirut. I mean, the government would meet if the investigation were stopped. Unfortunately, this is the condition."
On next year's parliamentary elections, he commented on reaching a possible alliance with Al-Mustaqbal Movement, saying: “Whatever the difficulties, concerns and reservations, as you want to call them, we cannot get out of a natural, objective, and historical alliance with Al-Mustaqbal.”
He continued: “
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On other parliamentary alliances, Jumblatt said: “There is an alliance with the Lebanese Forces, and we want to strengthen it within the suffocating restrictions of this electoral law, which we were forced to follow.”
Source: aawsat
