Geagea: Foreign Ministry Bordering on High Treason by Depriving Expats Right to Vote
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Thursday stressed that “today we are before a momentous event which is the publishing of the first part of the indictment in the murder case of ex-PM Rafik Hariri and all the martyrs of the Cedar Revolution.”
During a meeting with a delegation of Lebanese expatriates living in America, Australia, Africa, Europe and the Gulf, Geagea added: “It was really a historic day … the Lebanese people -- through a persistent struggle that cost it a lot of efforts, tears and bloodshed, especially between 2005-2009 – was able to launch the process of fulfilling justice.”
On a separate note, Geagea said “the foreign ministry did not make the necessary logistic preparations to enable all expatriates to vote, while the interior ministry has completed all the preparations in this regard.”
“This behavior by the foreign ministry borders on high treason because it contributes to depriving hundreds of thousands of Lebanese -- who send billions of dollars to their relatives in Lebanon yearly – from their right to participate in the Lebanese political life,” Geagea added.
He called on Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour to “make up for the lost time and launch an administrative, logistic process as soon as possible in order to finalize the necessary preparations for the 2013 polls within few months.”
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