Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi urged Lebanese factions on Sunday to get rid of the obstacles hampering the election of a president, as he extended condolences over the victims of the Bourj al-Barajneh and Paris bombings that left several dead, the National News Agency said.
“We urge the Christian political forces to seek to remove all the hurdles hampering the election of a president, and to facilitate the process as fast as possible and to agree with the allying political factions on a new electoral law,” said Rahi during the Sunday mass in Bkirki.
He concluded extending his condolences over the victims of the blasts that rocked Bourj al-Barajneh and the French capital recently, he said: “We strongly condemn the criminal acts and pray for the souls of the victims.”
Lebanon has been without a president since the term of President Michel Suleiman ended in May 2014.
The conflict between the rival March 8 and March 14 camps have thwarted all attempts so far to elect a successor.
On Thursday a blast ripped through Bourj al-Barajneh area in south Beirut leaving 43 dead and more than 239 injured.
A similar terrorist act took place in France on Friday when at least eight gunmen struck numerous locations around the French capital, in the bloodiest attack in Europe for more than a decade.
Fuente: http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/194481-rahi-condemns-beirut-and-paris...
