By Xinhua
Beirut : Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said Wednesday that there was no need to call off a 10-month sit-in in downtown Beirut, Lebanon’s local Naharnet news website reported.
Hezbollah’s stand was outlined by the deputy head of its politburo Mahmoud Qmati in a dialogue with reporters after a meeting with Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun.
In answering a question about reports concerning the possibility of calling off the sit-in in Beirut’s Riyadh Solh Square, Qmati said: “nothing requires calling off the sit-in in downtown Beirut. Consensus hasn’t been achieved to remove the tents.”
However, he was quoted as saying that if “serious consensus is achieved, solutions would roll.”
Hezbollah’s comment appears to be a quick rejection of a call by Maronite Bishops to “liberate” the capital’s commercial district.
Maronite Bishops said in a statement earlier in the day that time is ripe for the Hezbollah-controlled “Tent City” to be removed.
Since last December, Lebanese opposition alliance launched an open-ended sit-in in downtown Beirut to topple the Premier Fouad Seniora’s government.
Lebanon has been in political impasse since six pro-Syrian ministers quit the cabinet in last November as a result of power struggle between parliament majority and opposition blocs.