NNA - Free Patriotic Movement Chief, MP Gebran Bassil, said today via Twitter: "In the parliamentary session of October 19, the 'sullen group' dropped many reform provisions in the electoral law, such as the Lebanese Diaspora constituency and voting at the place of residence, and March 27 was fixed as the date for the parliamentary elections....I am not an expert in weather forecasts, but during said session I presented a census of the last 10 years on the storms occurring in the month of March, yet 'grump' hears no logic...!"

He added in a second tweet: "It is good that the President of the Republic, in his authority, set the elections date on May 15 and hence, rescued the elections...But as for the megacenter and the representatives of the immigrants, neither does he have any powers nor do we have the majority...That is why the "sulky group" dropped them in Parliament, the Constitutional Council and the government."

============R.Sh.