Rai: Parties await 'signals from outside' to elect president
Written by Najib

 

BEIRUT: Politicians have no excuse for procrastinating over the election of a new Lebanese president, Maronite Beshara Rai said Saturday, accusing political parties of relying on external powers for directions.

“Today we are experiencing a sort of political death that controls our destiny as a people, and the destiny of the state,” Rai said in his fifth Easter message. “There is no constitutional excuse to boycott the presidential election sessions ... or hesitate in taking any tangible initiative to exit the vacuum situation.”

“It seems that everyone is waiting for the signal from outside.”

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