Moukheiber:
Proportional representation protects centrists
BEIRUT:
Change and Reform bloc MP Ghassan Moukheiber said Saturday an elections law
based on proportional representation would protect centrists and said there was
no alternative to the present government.
“Proportional
representation is the ideal system for protecting centrists,” the Metn MP told
Voice of Lebanon radio station in an interview.
Progressive
Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt has rejected outright the Cabinet’s
draft electoral law based on proportional representation and warned Friday that
such a legislation would eliminate the “centrist voice” in the country.
Moukheiber
also praised the government’s policy of dissociating itself from developments
in neighboring Syria.
“The
dissociation policy has managed to protect Lebanon and all need to be at the
same distance from the Syrian opposition and the [Syrian] authority because
this is an internal Syrian affair,” he said.
Moukheiber
added that Syrian refugees in Lebanon needed to be assisted according to
international laws.
The
parliamentarian also said the government would remain in power.
“The present government
will remain because there is no alternative,” he said.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2012/May-05/172456-moukheiber-proportional-representation-protects-centrists.ashx#axzz1tuK3hCJi
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