FPM lawmaker calls for anti-Parliament extension protests

BEIRUT: Free Patriotic Movement MP Alain Aoun Wednesday called on Lebanese to take to the streets to protest against a parliamentary extension.

“A demonstration against the extension will not pose a threat to political figures,” Aoun told local LBCI television channel.

But Aoun acknowledged that this was just wishful thinking.

“I wish protests would have influence and change the status quo,” he said.

The FPM is staunchly against the extension of Parliament’s mandate.

The party's leader Michel Aoun has said in a recent interview: “From the start we opposed the extension and submitted a challenge before the Constitutional Council [against the first extension].”

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