Fneish: Elections A Step Towards Recreating Authority

 
Source: Al-Manar TV, 05-04-2009

Labor Minister Mohamad Fneish, in turn, called the elections a step toward "recreating authority by relying on the will of the people and... reconsidering political life through a new parliament and a new government."

Fneish confirmed the national opposition "is approaching the elections with a commitment to the Taef accord, reform" and to forming an administration set apart from the traditional system of patronage in Lebanon.

The Hizbullah minister rejected views that there is any benefit to abandoning the resistance and called for the US to stop interfering in Lebanese politics. "What is the benefit for Lebanon if the Lebanese abandon their defense or their fight against... the Zionist project?" Fneish asked.

He pointed out that "there are various transformations... happening today" with regard to international politics in the region and called for the US to disengage from internal Lebanese politics.