BEIRUT: Presidential candidate Michel Aoun is too irritable to lead the country, Future MP Ahmad Fatfat said Monday, after the Free Patriotic Movement leader accused Future of taking orders from Riyadh.
“Aoun attacked the Future Movement because he cannot attack his ally Hezbollah, which has let him down on two major occasions,” Fatfat told Al-Markazia news aganecy.
“The first occasion was concerning the Parliament mandate extension, and the second was when Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasralllah embraced him as March 8’s candidate and thus stripped the ‘consensus candidate’ label from him.”
Fatfat’s comments came after As-Safir newspaper Monday carried remarks by Aoun saying talks had ended with Future after Saudi Arabia vetoed his candidacy.
“Our dialogue with Gen. Aoun has stopped rather than [permanently] ended,” Fatfat added. “But if this attack is meant to pave the way to closing the door to dialogue, then let him take responsibility for that.”
Fatfat said Aoun had clearly “lost his nerves,” and thus begun to throw random accusations.
He said that Aoun “is very aware” that there was a wide opposition against supporting his candidacy inside the Future bloc.
“Most importantly, it has become clear that whoever opposed Aoun’s election was right, because someone who [becomes nervous] so quickly cannot be a president,” Fatfat said.
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