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Uncertainty Surrounds FPM's Decision to Participate in Budget Session

par This Is Beirut, 23/01 21:11 - Reading : less than a minute

The Strong Lebanon Bloc of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) has decided to tie its participation in parliamentary sessions and the vote on the budget to the deliberations that will take place during these sessions. Parliament is set to convene on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss and vote on the 2024 budget. Gebran Bassil, chief of the said ...

Nabih Berri's Presidential List

par This Is Beirut, 17/03 15:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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A former official says that there is no breakthrough on the presidential deadline and no consensus on a candidate. The Amal-Hezbollah duopoly continues to back its candidate, Marada leader Sleiman Frangieh, "to the hilt," as Hezbollah has asserted. Meanwhile, members of the opposition and the Free Patriotic Movement continue to support the ...

Gemayel: Berri Is Torn Between Opposing Alliances

par This Is Beirut, 18/03 21:54 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Leader of the Kataeb party Sami Gemayel asserted that Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, whom he accuses of obstructing the presidential election, is attempting to balance his alliance with Hezbollah and his relations with the United States. "Berri cannot go against the Americans, as he has interests in the United States where members of his ...

The FPM Will Vote – or Not – to Postpone Municipal Elections

par This Is Beirut, 16/04 21:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil

On Tuesday, the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, Gebran Bassil, denied rumors of a deal with the Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri. According to some reports, Berri's Amal movement had asked engineers among its supporters to vote for the FPM candidate for president of the Order of Engineers, Fadi Hanna, in exchange for a vote by Bassil's ...

A New Member of the “Anti-Bassil Club”

par This Is Beirut, 18/04 09:00 - Reading : less than a minute

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After being elected vice president of the Free Patriotic Movement, sources close to the Aounist party indicate that May Khreish left the ranks of the FPM and submitted her resignation to join the group of supporters of former President Michel Aoun who had left the orange formation, as they no longer recognized themselves in him after he abandoned ...

Bassil Will Not Meet Jean-Yves Le Drian Next Wednesday

par This Is Beirut, 26/05 11:42 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil Jean-Yves Le Drian

According to Al-Jadeed media channel, sources within the Free Patriotic Movement announced that the head of the movement, MP Gebran Bassil, apologized for his inability to host the French presidential envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian next Wednesday due to a prior commitment to a foreign visit. It is worth mentioning that during Le Drian's last visit to ...

Bassil Visits Rai to Talk About Presidency

par This Is Beirut, 09/06 15:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) chief Gebran Bassil said that the real fear is “laxity with regard to the presidential vacancy, and this issue must be separated from the others.” After meeting with Maronite Patriarch Bechara Rai, Bassil stated that “there is a process aimed at preventing and blocking the election of a president of the ...

What’s Happening Inside the FPM?

par This Is Beirut, 10/07 09:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Opposition within the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) against party leader MP Gebran Bassil is increasingly taking shape, with many members reportedly boycotting party meetings. The dissidents have many remarks regarding Bassil’s political positions, especially a recent stance which suggests that he is “longing” to return to Hezbollah’s ...

Will Dissensions Within the FPM Threaten Its Future?

par This Is Beirut, 29/07 15:39 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Disputes within the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), initiated by its leader Gebran Bassil, have become public and widely discussed. Bassil’s efforts to undermine and eliminate party cadres have intensified, especially after the 2022 elections and a significant decline in the party’s Christian representation—from nearly 70% in 2005 to less ...

Bassil Expected to Oust MP from FPM

par This Is Beirut, 02/08 12:36 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The head of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) Gebran Bassil is expected to issue a decision excluding MP Alain Aoun from the party without referring him to the 'Council of Sages', according to MTV. Aoun, who is the nephew of FPM founder and former President, Michel Aoun, was Bassil’s rival in the elections to the party’s presidency in ...

FPM Ousts Alain Aoun

par This Is Beirut, 02/08 15:54 - Reading : less than a minute

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The Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) expelled MP Alain Aoun. In a statement issued on Friday by the Central Committee for Media and Communication, the Council chaired by former President Michel Aoun issued two recommendations for the dismissal. The first recommendation stated that “Aoun failed to appear before the council several times and ...

Abi Ramia Resigns from FPM, Reveals Behind the Scenes Truths

par This Is Beirut, 07/08 11:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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“Every leader whose legitimacy stemmed from their history, present, and contribution to the movement over four decades became a target for exclusion because they did not fit the specifications of the inheritance project intended for the ‘new movement’, Abi Ramia said. Abi Ramia reflected on his loyalty to former President, Michel Aoun, ...

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