In the drawer of the Constitutional Council, two appeals against the extension of the parliament's mandate are found. The first submitted by the President Michel Suleiman and the second by Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun.
Constitutional Council is running out of time. It has to discuss both appeals, to study them before issuing a final decision and then put them to vote.
Informed sources of Constitutional Council work, expected to issue a decision regarding the President's appeal within 3 days as a deadline. Then the Constitutional Council will convene to put it to vote within 10 days.
This decision should garner a majority, 7 out of 10 votes to decide on the challenge.
It is worth to mention that the council is formed of 10 members: 5 Christians and 5 Muslims.
Christians: 2 Maronites, 2 Greek Orthodox and 1 Greek Catholic
Muslims: 2 Sunnites, 2 Shiites and 1 Druze
The circulating information shows that the 5 Christian votes will go for the President and Gen. Aoun to accept the appeal. However the mission now is to entente another two members, which are potentially the Sunnites.
Constitutional Council sources are in doubts that the Christian votes will lead to approve the appeal, because the Constitutional Council decisions are purely legal and not secular.
Sources prove this point of view by saying that the Druze member voted against the appeal filed by MP Walid Jumblat's National Struggle Front bloc against the suspension of the nominations' deadlines for the parliamentary elections which also prove that there is no way to influence the Constitutional Council neither politically nor secularly.
Constitutional Council is running out of time. It has to discuss both appeals, to study them before issuing a final decision and then put them to vote.
Informed sources of Constitutional Council work, expected to issue a decision regarding the President's appeal within 3 days as a deadline. Then the Constitutional Council will convene to put it to vote within 10 days.
This decision should garner a majority, 7 out of 10 votes to decide on the challenge.
It is worth to mention that the council is formed of 10 members: 5 Christians and 5 Muslims.
Christians: 2 Maronites, 2 Greek Orthodox and 1 Greek Catholic
Muslims: 2 Sunnites, 2 Shiites and 1 Druze
The circulating information shows that the 5 Christian votes will go for the President and Gen. Aoun to accept the appeal. However the mission now is to entente another two members, which are potentially the Sunnites.
Constitutional Council sources are in doubts that the Christian votes will lead to approve the appeal, because the Constitutional Council decisions are purely legal and not secular.
Sources prove this point of view by saying that the Druze member voted against the appeal filed by MP Walid Jumblat's National Struggle Front bloc against the suspension of the nominations' deadlines for the parliamentary elections which also prove that there is no way to influence the Constitutional Council neither politically nor secularly.
