BEIRUT: The Future Movement is studying Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah’s call for dialogue in the wake of the presidential vacuum gripping Lebanon, MP Mohammad Hajjar said.
The Future bloc MP pointed to a recent initiative announced by Future Movement leader Saad Hariri that called for national talks on the presidential election.
“If this is what Nasrallah’s call [for dialogue] meant, then this corresponds with what we have said,” Hajjar said in remarks published Thursday by the local daily Al-Liwaa.
“But if the issue goes beyond that, then this is another issue that requires explanation,” he said.
In separate comments to a local radio station Thursday, Hajjar said Hariri has “stressed in his latest initiative the need to have a new head of state.”
Hariri, he added, also underlined the need “to launch national talks on the presidential election in light of the ongoing power vacuum.”
Commenting on Parliament’s extension till 2017, Hajjar said that the Future Movement has “tied the extension to the presidential election and to a new electoral law.”
Lawmakers Wednesday voted for Parliament’s extension by more than two and a half years.
Policital analysts told The Daily Star the extension will not help accelerate the election of a new president, an issue that largely depends on a Saudi-Iranian consensus which seems to be far-fetched, given renewed tensions between the two regional heavyweights.
They also predicted a prolonged deadlock as long as Riyadh and Tehran remained at loggerheads over a host of regional conflicts, namely in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
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