Zahra: Aoun's era opportunity to reimplement Taif

NNA - Lebanese Forces bloc member, MP Antoine Zahra, said his party has always carried the project of building the State, noting that "the LF seeks partnership as stipulated by the Taif." In an interview on LBCI, Zahra said his party saw in President Michel Aoun a chance to re-implement this [Taif] agreement "as originally drafted and not as previously applied." "The LF has participated in three governments and has never been accused of suspicious behavior," he argued, assuring that the distribution of quotas is not his party's mission. "We demanded a sovereign ministry and the reply came that we only get the vice Premier portfolio and three others, and based on that we nominated our ministers." "We are interested in facilitating things, but we are not concerned with providing concessions," Zahra assured. "When we requested a key portfolio, we were told that the situation is not suitable now, since this era's actual government will be the one formed after the elections and not today, and therefore an agreement was made. On a different note, Zahra said "We will resist peacefully and politically, any attempt for Syrian interference in Lebanon." "I wonder why Patriarch Rahi received the Mufti of Syria, who is dancing on the graves of the dead, while leaders of other communities did not receive him," Zahra said. Responding to a question, Zahra wished only a formal relation would be established with the Syrian regime; a relation confined to ambassadors and the Foreign Ministry.