The Head of Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun accused President Michel Sleiman of harming the rights of Christians.

The Head of Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun accused President Michel Sleiman of harming the rights of Christians.

Sleiman “violated the rights of all Christian sects, as well as some Muslim ones who rejected the 1960 parliamentary electoral law,” Aoun told al-Mada radio on Saturday.

“Sleiman employed his authority against his sect” when he rejected the Orthodox Gathering electoral law, he noted.

Talking about the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Mikati, Aoun slammed the outgoing PM, saying he resigned for ridiculous reasons.

Mikati’s resignation “surprised us and yet didn't,” he said, adding: “I have not yet understood why Miqati stepped down from his post.
“We don't fear the repercussions of Mikati's resignation since we have solutions for all possibilities,” Aoun added.

The FPM leader signaled that foreign powers called Mikati to resign.
We should head to “one of the embassies” in Lebanon in order to uncover the real purposes of the resignation.

On the consultations to form a new government, the MP remarked: “Naming a new prime minister is a complicated issue.”

“The country is living in chaos and the government could not even refer an officer to retirement,” Aoun said in reference to the end of Ashraf Rifi's term as head of the Internal Security Forces.

“The former officers were more loyal to the country than Rifi is and they all left their post at the end of their tenure,” remarked the FPM leader.