President Suleiman asked Fuad Siniora to form the next cabinet. After appointment, Siniora said among others:
Premier Rafik Hariri is the reason I stand here, and I promise to fulfill my duties in protecting the state and its institutions and confirming the sovereignty of the law and justice through the International Tribunal.
Not surprisingly, FPM, Hizballah and Amal were not too happy about it. Aoun declared “His nomination is a recipe for conflict rather than reconciliation.”
Next step for Siniora is to form the national unity government. The majority will have 16 seats, Hizballah and allies will have 11, and President Suleiman will nominate 3 ministers.
While Siniora and March 14 do their best [and it proved to be not enough] to strengthen state institutions, Hizballah is busy doing something else.
If curious, check what Ali Larijani had to say about the party & Sheikh Nasrallah.
Ali Larijani, the new head of the Iranian Shoura Council, praised Hezbollah for achieving aspects of the teachings of Imam Khomeini and for defending the Wiliayat Al-Faqih (Guardianship of the Jurist).
“Hezbollah's secretary general, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in his capacity as Khomeini's spiritual son is viewed as the resistance's impregnable fort against Israel and the US,” Larijani said in his first speech in front of Iran's MPs.
“We consider this regional political victory [achieved by Nasrallah] in Lebanon as the beginning of bigger victories,” he added.
He also described the statements issued by Hezbollah as courageous, good and emanating from the Islamic Revolution.
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