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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Beirut - Mohamed Choucair

Nasrallah Snubs Bassil after MP Rejects his Candidate for Lebanese Presidency

Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) chief MP Gebran Bassil pictured in November 2019. (AFP)

Head of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah has refused to hold a meeting with Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) chief MP Gebran Bassil over his rejection of the party’s candidate for the Lebanese presidency.

Bassil has compiled a list of potential candidates that does not include the party’s favored pick, Marada Movement leader former MP Suleiman Franjieh.

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