Asharq Al-Awsat: President Aoun asked to cancel a tweet for his unemployed before his meeting with Jumblatt

Asharq Al-Awsat: President Aoun asked to cancel a tweet for his unemployed before his meeting with Jumblatt

Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper learned that what matters to former MP Walid Jumblatt is to strengthen reconciliation on the mountain while meeting with “forces”, spiritual leaders and most political forces. Therefore, the meeting with President Michel Aoun came to avoid sliding into the sectarian struggle that was about to reignite if he did not insist on defuse the explosion.
Farid al-Bustani, a deputy in the “Strong Lebanon” bloc, has a role in preparing the atmosphere for Jumblatt’s visit to Aoun, and participates in his effort with former Minister Naji al-Bustani and the General of retired brigade Wilson Najim, son of the city of Maasser Al-Shouf. Representative Bustani is a member of the parliamentary bloc headed by former Minister Gibran Bassil, and realized that the atmosphere in the mountain is not comfortable, especially after the joint statement issued by the Bishop of Saida and Deir al-Qamar to the Maronites Maroun al-Amar and the Roman Catholic Archbishop Elie El-Haddad and with the blessing of the Maronite and Catholic churches and in it a warning of the return of the Church. Sedition and an affirmation of the protection of civil peace, which was accompanied by a warning statement to the municipality of Deir El Qamar.
Jumblatt did not hesitate to bless the movement started by al-Bustani, as well as his willingness to meet Aoun, who received him with a similar disposition, so the meeting was from a position of political difference. It was prepared with direct intervention by Aoun, who asked to remove a tweet from former Minister Ghassan Atallah (of the “Free Patriotic Movement”) that occurred on the eve of Jumblatt’s visit to Baabda Palace, and it was reported that the tweet did not work. to strengthen reconciliation, in addition to Aoun’s request to stop broadcasting a Beited-based radio station. It was said to be an atmosphere that did not serve to prevent sedition on the mountain.
Therefore, the meeting was held at the invitation of Aoun, led by Brigadier General Najim, and there was an atmosphere of enthusiasm for confronting all forms of incitement, and it was decided that former Minister Ghazi Al-Aridi on behalf de Jumblatt would communicate with Aoun in the framework of spreading an atmosphere of calm and maintaining coordination for intervention against any attempt to evade a meeting. Baabda