Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Hezbollah installed Premier: "Party of God" takes over power in Lebanon

Hezbollah is the goal, but Lebanon is experiencing a "Day of Wrath": the future is Nadschib Mikati rule the country, the candidate of the militant Shiite organization. Thousands of supporters of former Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri protested. Beirut / Tripoli - The protest was in vain. At the start of a "day of wrath" had pictures of Hariri's supporters burned Nadschib Mikati and "The Sunni blood is boiling," chanted.


But the Shia of Hezbollah (in German, "Party of God") nominated by Sunni businessman sat in the Prime Minister: In Parliament, he received 68 out of 120 votes, he was commissioned by President Michel Suleiman to form a government. Mikati will begin according to own data on Thursday. This candidate received a majority of the Hezbollah also because the block of Druze leader Walid Jumblatt supported Mikati.

The demonstrators also demanded that the cooperation continues with the international tribunal to investigate the murder of Hariri's father, the former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri. According to eyewitnesses, the amount was a car of the Arabic channel al-Jazeera on fire. Also in the capital Beirut led to protests.

Demonstrators set fire to Autifen and blocked a road. The army fired warning shots, witnesses said. Hariri's Sunni party has announced that do not work in a government under one of the Hezbollah to put into office Prime Minister. "We refuse to receive orders from Hezbollah and its Iranian leaders," said the parliamentarian Mustafa Allusch belonging to the Hariri Group.

The Hariri-led government was broken up by the departure of Hezbollah from the alliance. Sticking point is prepared by a UN tribunal indictment for the murder of Rafik al-Hariri. The prosecution has not yet been published, but it is expected that members of Hezbollah supported by Iran and Syria are accused.

Hariri was killed in 2005 in an attack. Hezbollah had announced that one of the first acts of the new government to cut off contacts with the international tribunal in Lebanon. As Prime Minister of Lebanon must be sworn in only a Sunni Muslim. The President must always be a Maronite Christian and the Speaker of Parliament a Shiite.

President Suleiman had asked Hariri, as transitional prime minister to stay so long in office until the formation of a new government is completed.

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