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The head of the Marada Movement, Suleiman Franjieh, said in an interview with the daily Al-Jumhuriya that, with the election of a new president of the United States, “the pillars of American policy towards the region will not change much, because they are generally based on a set of constants, I don’t think they are going to change in their essence ”. President-elect Joe Biden will be more elegant than President Donald Trump and will build on some of the foundations adopted by former President Barack Obama. “
On his position on the sanctions issued by the Trump administration against the leader of the “Free Patriotic Movement”, Gebran Bassil, while packing his bags in preparation to leave, Franjieh said: “Basil and some of the officials of the” Free Movement “left following the imposition of US sanctions on the two ministers Yusef Fenianos and Ali Hassan Khalil. To say that who is the corrupt and the perpetrator has finally emerged, and now I adopt the position of Bassil and the current officials at that time, without adding or diminishing, commenting on the US decision against Gibran.
Regarding his opinion on the analyzes that concluded that the sanctions against Bassil allowed him to get rid of a competitor for the presidency, Franjieh stressed that he does not enter into such narrow calculations, noting that “the issue of the presidential elections has not been resolved as of now, and the identity of the next president. ” It depends on the circumstances that will prevail, when the expiration time comes after about two years and is therefore too early to make final judgments.
He added: “As for me personally, I have a well-known and clear political project, and I am not ready for any compromise in this regard to get to the Baabda Palace, and that is why I approach the issue of the presidency from this angle, regardless. who is a competitor and if their opportunities advance or recede. “
He stressed “the importance of speeding up the formation of the government, away from influences, to face the accumulated and worsening crises”, explaining that “no one has offered us anything yet, and I did not ask anyone, and when they contact us we give our opinion”.
He pointed out that “it is not necessary to obtain any ministerial portfolio, and according to what they propose to us, we define our position. Either we participate in the government in a manner appropriate to its composition and nature, or we stay out of it”, highlighting that it is managing realistically this file.
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