BEIRUT: Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun expressed frustration over the political wrangling in Lebanon, saying the country was being run by a "mafia."
"I am fed up," Aoun said in an interview with As-Safir newspaper published Friday, a day after he threatened to take “explosive” measures against the Cabinet for passing a "non-consensual" agenda item.
He said he was being targeted, and vowed to “engage in a confrontation with the Cabinet.”
"I am fighting to enforce reforms and (Christian) rights, that's why they are all against me,” the FPM chief said.
"[Thursday's] Cabinet session was a real test to the relation with the other factions," he said, rejecting the "mounting violations" in the absence of the head of state.