The Free Patriotic Movement has accused its partner in the presidential settlement, al-Mustaqbal Movement, of wasting time in the electoral law deliberations in order to postpone the parliamentary elections, a media report said on Wednesday.
“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,” al-Akhbar newspaper quoted FPM sources as saying.
“Al-Mustaqbal Movement is practicing procrastination in a bid to turn the current law into a fait accompli,” the FPM sources charged.
“Mustaqbal’s behavior suggests that it does not want parliamentary elections,” the sources added.
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.
