2024-06-10 17:48 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The saga of the presidential election in Lebanon keeps unfolding with a series of initiatives that have yet to translate into tangible outcomes. The five-nation Quintet Committee (France, US, Qatar, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia) is in full swing, in parallel to Qatar's own initiative and the efforts of the French presidential envoy, Jean-Yves Le Drian. ...
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 ...
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, 2024-05-04 15:01 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The leader of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), MP Gebran Bassil, lashed out at the European Union for offering Lebanon one billion euros in exchange for keeping displaced Syrians, describing the move as an “attempt to replace the Lebanese with Syrians.” At a press conference on Saturday, Bassil stressed that the financial aid offered by the ...
This Is Beirut, 2024-04-18 18:21 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
The ambassadors of the quintet committee (United States, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Qatar) continued on Thursday their meetings with various Lebanese parties and officials, which they had started on Tuesday, aiming to unblock the presidential election. Egyptian Ambassador Alaa Moussa announced that the quintet "concluded on Thursday the ...
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 ...
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, 2024-03-18 13:53 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
While supporting Christian unity, the Lebanese Forces clearly stated on Monday that they will not engage with the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) unless it stops supporting Hezbollah. Responding to FPM chairman Gebran Bassil’s call on Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai to unify Christian ranks, the party said in a statement, "We see no reason for ...
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, 2024-03-14 10:31 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Hezbollah’s leadership instructed the party’s officials, cadres and its electronic army, not to react to declarations made by the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) and avoid entering into debates or arguments with the movement’s leader and “former ally” Gebran Bassil. Hezbollah’s argument is that it is too preoccupied with the battle ...