Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc on Thursday stressed the “importance of holding the parliamentary vote under a new electoral law,” dismissing accusations that al-Mustaqbal Movement is seeking the postponement of the elections.
In a statement issued after its weekly meeting, the bloc also underlined its “commitment to the hybrid law format it had agreed on with the Progressive Socialist Party, the Lebanese Forces and a number of independent MPs.”
Free Patriotic Movement sources had accused Mustaqbal of “wasting time” in the electoral law deliberations with the aim of delaying the elections.
“Mustaqbal does not want an agreement on a new law. The proof is that the premier's movement either opposes the proposed ideas or it requests some time to mull some proposals which it categorically rejects, such as the draft law suggested by Najib Miqati's government, in an attempt to waste time,” the sources told al-Akhbar newspaper.
High-ranking Mustaqbal sources meanwhile stressed to al-Akhbar that the movement's stance is clear “on the need to hold the elections on time and according to a new law.”
“Our movement has agreed to at least two proposals: the hybrid law that we proposed together with the Lebanese Forces and the Progressive Socialist Party and the 'one-man, multiple-vote' proposal,” the sources clarified.
“Other parties have rejected the hybrid law, not us,” the sources added, referring to the PSP.
Date: 23/02/2017
