NOW JUNE 13, 2013 Bassil: Hezbollah making wrong internal political choices Lebanese caretaker Energy Minister Gebran Bassil said that the Shiite group Hezbollah’s involvement in Syria was affecting its political choices in Lebanon. “The disagreement with Hezbollah over the extension of parliament’s term is not a secret. We believe that the distraction away from internal matters is forcing it into making wrongful internal choices,” Bassil said in remarks published by As-Safir newspaper on Thursday. “The choice of backing parliament’s extension is bad for [Hezbollah] and for the country,” the Free Patriotic Movement minister added. On Tuesday, the Lebanese Constitutional Council failed to reach a quorum to discuss challenges to the parliament’s term extension amid reports of a political deal to prevent the body from taking a decision on the issue. Discussions over the legality of the term extension began after both President Michel Suleiman and the FPM’s Change and Reform bloc submitted an appeal before the Constitutional Council against the parliament’s bill. The parliament had extended at the end of May its mandate until November 2014 with a bill that was signed by 97 lawmakers in an attempt to postpone the country’s parliamentary elections. https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/lebanonnews/bassil-hezbollah-making-wrong-internal-political-choices
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