Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun said on Tuesday that "Prime Minister Tammam Salam is acting as though he were president," in a speech attacking his political rivals and calling on them to resign. Aoun’s comments were made after his bloc’s weekly meeting. “We, in the Cabinet, agreed on a specific mechanism to assume the prerogatives of the presidency, but ministers are now being eliminated,” he said. "The prime minister is playing two roles now; the premiership and the presidency,” he added. His comments came last in the series of reactions to Cabinet’s passing of a decree allocating $21 million to help export agricultural and industrial products by sea, while ignoring the FPM’s demand to discuss the appointment of major military and security officers. During his heated speech, he called on politicians accusing him of disrupting the work of the state institutions to “resign” if they had “one drop of dignity left.”