BEIRUT, Nov 14 (NNN-NNA) – Thousands of Lebanese demonstrators blocked streets all over Lebanon, to express their outrage over President Michel Aoun’s remarks a day earlier, and the death of a protester in Khaldeh, south of Lebanon.
Protesters threatened to go to Baabda Palace and force the President to resign, if he and all other officials do not submit their resignations within 48 hours.
President Aoun’s remarks were misinterpreted, when he called upon protesters to send a representative, capable of conducting negotiations with Lebanese authorities, to meet the people’s demands.
Aoun said that, if there are “no decent people from the movement to participate in a discussion, let them immigrate, because in this case, they will not reach a position of authority in Lebanon.”
Protesters thought that Aoun had said that, people should immigrate, if they do not like any decent person in authority.
Demonstrators are also angry over the death of a protester in Khaldeh, while the Lebanese army was trying to disperse protesters, who took to the streets after Aoun’s speech.
President Aoun has not yet started consultations with MP’s, to name a new prime minister, after the resignation of PM Saad Hariri’s government, following pressure from the streets.
The delay in the formation of a new government has also angered protesters, who believe that authorities are not taking their demands seriously.– NNN-NNA