Thousands of supporters of Lebanese President Michel Aoun demonstrated yesterday on the road to the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, to express their support for him. Aoun called on the Lebanese to unite and pledged to fight corruption and improve the economy, while protesters demonstrated in different areas including Sidon and Tire, within the so-called By «one unit» in the framework of pressure towards the formation of a transitional government to manage the crisis, and to demand «accountability corrupt».
In detail, thousands of supporters of the Free Patriotic Movement (Aoun) rallied yesterday to express their support, under the slogan «O people of loyalty», raising Lebanese flags and orange flags symbolizing the President's party, and the crowds stretched about a kilometer away, and some wore clothes in color Others were carrying pictures of the 84-year-old president and another of the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement Gibran Bassil, Aoun's brother-in-law and the foreign minister.
Aoun delivered a speech to thousands of supporters who rallied on the presidential palace road. He was broadcast to the crowds on huge screens and on television channels.
"I call on everyone to unite," Aoun said.
"We have drawn up a three-point roadmap: corruption, the economy and the civil state," he said, without giving further details. He called for unifying the squares, saying: "We need your effort, to a square of you and those who are demonstrating to defend your rights."
Aoun raised the badges of victory and went to his supporters by saying: "You came here to tell me we are with you and I tell you I am with you, through you I see the people of Lebanon all, and I say to you I also love you all means all of you," borrowing the slogan "all means all of them", which he uses Protesters demand the departure of all components of the political class.
A banner reading "We are here is a general who will not leave you as long as we are alive", a reference to Aoun, nicknamed General since he was appointed army chief in 1984.
Speaking in front of the crowd, Bassil said, criticizing the protesters' movements: “Instead of blocking the roads, we should stop the MP who refuses to pass these laws, the politician who escapes accountability, and the judge who does not want to be held accountable or the law enforced.”
Like Aoun, Bassil called for the unification of the demonstrations as well. "We are here not to contradict the protesting people, but to strengthen them and stand with them and complete all of us together," he said.
On the other hand, the «National Information Agency», the protesters flocked to the square of Elia intersection in the city of Sidon, to participate in «one of the unit», in response to the call by the «movement» to the Lebanese citizens, to go to the squares to continue their movement and pressure towards the formation of a transitional government to manage the crisis The protesters raised Lebanese flags, banners and solidarity slogans.
The agency also reported that protesters flocked to the flag square in Tire, demanding «accountability corrupt», and «return the looted money to the state», amid tight security measures taken by the army and security forces in the vicinity of the flag square, and spread images of the Speaker of the House Nabih Berri at the entrances of Tire He also raised a giant picture of him on the building of doctors opposite the square of science, read «We are all with you».
Aoun's supporters are raised
The slogan «We will not leave you» ..
And supporters «Berri»
They address him:
"We are all with you".