Mustaqbal Says Only State Arms Have Legitimacy to Protect Lebanon
Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc on Wednesday stressed that only the army and the other security forces have the “legitimacy” to “protect Lebanon and its land and people,” several days after President Michel Aoun announced that Hizbullah's arms “do not contradict with the State.”
“There is no legitimacy for any weapons in Lebanon other than those of the Lebanese state, as stipulated by U.N. resolution 1701,” said the bloc in a statement issued after its weekly meeting.
Mustaqbal also underlined its “insistence on the need to hold the parliamentary elections on time and according to a new law based on unified standards.”
The new electoral law should not “eliminate or aggrieve any Lebanese component,” it emphasized.
While Mustaqbal has rejected that the electoral law be fully based on the proportional representation system, arguing that Hizbullah's arms would prevent serious competition in the party's strongholds, Druze leader MP Walid Jumblat has totally rejected proportional representation, even within a hybrid law, warning that it would “marginalize” the minority Druze community.
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