Moussawi: Presidential Candidate Must Unite the Lebanese, Support the Resistance
Loyalty to Resistance MP Nawaf Moussawi reiterated on Saturday that Hizbullah wants a president who embraces the resistance, and who is capable of uniting the Lebanese people.
"We want the election of a candidate who can unite the Lebanese despite their divisions and differences,” Moussawi said at a party event.
"The candidate should unite people and make them take part in dialogue, and they should not be biased or taking a side,” he added.
Uniting the Lebanese together would eventually lead to reconciliation, agreements between them and to building a united and just society and state, he said.
"These conditions must be in the candidate's personality, their history and future aspirations.”
The Hizbullah MP also reiterated that his party and its allies want a nominee for office who "accepts and adopts the resistance."
"We want a candidate who can embrace the resistance and defend it against any attempts that aim at weakening Lebanon through its resistance.”
He considered that it is a “national and constitutional duty” to look for a candidate who has these characteristics.
"We ask every presidential candidate, what are you liberation plans? What are your plans to defend Lebanon against Israeli violence and threats? And what is you stance on the resistance which proved to be an essential tool in liberating Lebanon and defending its land?” Moussawi said.
The first round of the presidential elections was held on Wednesday, but parliament failed to elect a new head of state after none of the candidates, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea and Democratic Gathering MP Henri Helou, received the needed 86 votes of lawmakers.
The second round of the polls will be held on April 30 where a candidate needs 65 votes to be elected president.
President Michel Suleiman's six-year term ends on May 25.
S.D.B.
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