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Legislative petitions urge termination of President Lahoud’s mandate

Monday, February 20, 2006

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MP Boutros Harb said President Emile Lahoud’s tenure has been unconstitutional due to the “pressures and threats” that legislators were subjected to when Parliament extended the head of state’s mandate in September 2004. After talks with head of the Future bloc in Parliament MP Saad Rafic Hariri, MP Harb said there is no turning back on an initiative by MPs in Parliament to force President Lahoud to step down.

Speaking to reporters in Koreitem, MP Harb stressed that President Lahoud’s mandate was extended through unconstitutional means, against the will of Lebanese MPs and the country’s leadership, who were subjected to threats, including assassinated Prime Minister Rafic Hariri. MP Harb said Parliament should consider the Presidency vacant and appoint a new head of state, as the Lebanese continue to show “unprecedented” moves towards a historic reconciliation.

Later in Koreitem, MP Hariri met Public Works and Transport Mohammed al-Safadi, and held separate talks with US Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman, and Argentinean Ambassador Jose Pedro Pico, who reaffirmed his country’s solidarity with Beirut and support for the international probe into Premier Hariri’s assassination at the UN Security Council. Malaysia’s Ambassador Abdel Halim bin Abdel Rahman, also met MP Hariri, in the presence of Malaysia’s General Consul in Lebanon Omar Jondi.