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| 30/06/2008 The head of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc MP Michel Aoun said Monday that international intervention is taking place in a bid to prevent the formation of a new government.
Speaking to reporters after heading the weekly meeting of his parliamentary bloc, Aoun stressed that "some international and regional players who had left the domestic game have entered the game again through the cabinet line-up."
While hinting it was not "so great" to take part in the new government, Aoun insisted that the cabinet must be formed "and that we participate in it." "Since the 2006 sit-in, we have been fighting for participation in the government," he recalled.
Aoun said he hoped that after the 2009 parliamentary elections, his party would gain power in a better way. "We have enough popular sympathy to make it, and we have the curiosity to know what is happening in power," he stressed, adding that "for the past 16 years, they have had control over everything."
He accused the loyalty of demanding more compromises from him. "Whatever compromises we offer, they ask for more," Aoun said, adding that "we demand one thing and we are given another." "Whatever you demand, they make it seem like they are giving you something. They are not giving us anything – this is our right."
The FPM leader said his demands were reasonable. "We are not demanding too much," he stressed. "And who says that during negotiations one should accept everything he is offered?"
He denied that differences over the shares in the new the cabinet were among opposition parties, but between the opposition and Prime Minister-designate Fouad Saniora. "Beyond the harm we have sustained, they blame us. At the end of the day, we are not in charge. There is an incumbent premier, and he is responsible not to leak [false] information to the public," he said. | 
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