BEIRUT: Speaker Nabih Berri is optimistic about a regional and local climate that would eventually result in the election of a president, head of the Central Maronite Council Wadih Khazen said Monday.
Quoting Berri after their meeting, Khazen told reporters that the speaker considered that “local and regional conditions predicted a positive indicator that may serve to motivate local factions to agree on a new president.”
According to the council president, Parliament’s extension will eventually lead to consensus of the presidential vote.
With regards to negotiations over the release of 27 Lebanese service men held hostage by ISIS and the Nusra Front, Khazen assured that the speaker was giving the case his full attention, saying that Berri is in constant contact with a ministerial crisis cell tasked with overseeing negotiations.
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