BEIRUT: Ashraf
Rifi will not be running in a Tripoli by-election, instead choosing to back Future Movement candidate Dima Jamali, former Premier Fouad Siniora said Tuesday.
Medical sources said
Rifi was injured in the cervical vertebrae and became quadriplegic.
Damascus: When their names were first registered for the upcoming parliamentary elections on 6 May, Ashraf
Rifi and Jamil Al Sayyed raised eyebrows among Lebanon's civil society.
After being invited to provide weekend seminars internationally,
RIFI Founder and President Marsha Enright wanted to open registration for the 2015 Great Connection Seminar with a new website that highlights the benefits of
RIFI's innovative approach.
Ali described the allegation as "strange" and said
Rifi "did not provide any evidence to prove it," according to daily AN NAHAR Saturday.
While Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) leader MP Michel Aoun praised Suleiman's decision to act against Internal Security Forces (ISF) chief Major General Ashraf
Rifi for disobeying caretaker Interior Minister Ziad Baroud's order to withdraw members of the ISF's Information Branch from a building affiliated with the Telecommunications Ministry where the network is based, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea criticized the decision, praising
Rifi as the "most disciplined officer."
In that vote,
Rifi took 16 of Tripoli's 24 council seats, trampling the "consensus" list jointly put forth by the city's major political forces -- those of Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri, former Prime Minister Najib Mikati, former Minister Faisal Karami, former Minister Mohammad Safadi, caretaker Minister Mohammad Kabbara, Al-Jamaa al-Islamiya and the Association of Islamic Charitable Projects, also known as Al-Ahbash.
The document in question relates to
Rifi's response to FPM minister Nabil Nicolas' parliamentary inquiry into the investigation of General Fayez Karam, former head of the ISF Information Branch, which Nicolas alleged were illegal.
BEIRUT: Young Future Movement supporters burned tires and blocked a highway in Akkar Sunday to protest a planned visit from former Justice Minister Ashraf
Rifi as part of his electoral tour, local media Al-Jadeed reported.