This Is Beirut, 2024-06-09 15:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil Ghada Aoun
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 ...
2024-05-27 15:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
With the arrival of French Presidential Envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian in Lebanon on Tuesday, communications have resumed between Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) MP Gebran Bassil and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. MP Ghassan Atallah of the Strong Lebanon Parliamentary Bloc noted that the anticipated meeting with Berri was initially scheduled for ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-05-26 11:42 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil
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 ...
2024-05-23 13:42 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil
Gebran Bassil is wasting no time. The Free Patriotic Movement's leader is pulling out all the stops to secure his political future, on several levels, after receiving a succession of political slaps in the face. The son-in-law of the former president, Michel Aoun, is reportedly not happy with cleaning up the party he was catapulted to lead ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-04-18 09:00 - Reading : less than a minute
Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil
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 ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-04-16 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 ...
Joanne Naoum, 2024-04-04 20:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
The Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) led by Gebran Bassil is reportedly seeking to improve relations with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, but the question of a rapprochement between the two adversaries was utterly denied by the Speaker’s circle. Nonetheless, a new dynamic in relations between the FPM and Berri’s Amal Movement was ushered in ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-03-30 14:43 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
According to one of the participants, the inter-Christian meetings at Bkerkeh will resume after Easter. These discussions are expected to yield a final document outlining the fundamental principles of a national policy rooted in Lebanese values. The Christian parties of the Lebanese Forces (LF), Kataeb, the National Liberal Party (PNL), and the ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-03-18 21:54 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil
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 ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-03-17 21:15 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Free Patriotic Movement Gebran Bassil
Leader of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) Gebran Bassil attended two events organized by his party on Sunday. The first, "Gen to Gen," was attended by young people and FPM executives. During the ceremony, the FPM leader declared that he has no regrets about the Mar Mikhael agreement (signed between the FPM and Hezbollah in 2006), affirming ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-03-17 15:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Free Patriotic Movement Lebanese Forces
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 ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-03-16 17:00 - Reading : less than a minute
“The alliance is broken, and the lovers have parted ways,” presumably stated a Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) official regarding their party's relations with Hezbollah. According to the source, the meeting that took place in Rabieh between President Michel Aoun and a Hezbollah delegation, presided over by the party chief of the Loyalty of ...