Nasrallah: We want a president who would reassure the resistance
Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Friday openly announced that his party wants a new president for Lebanon who “would reassure the resistance.”
“We do not want a president who would provide a cover for the resistance, because it does not need protection. We want a president who would not stab the resistance in the back,” Nasrallah added, in a televised address marking Hezbollah’s “Martyr Day”.
“The resistance was safe throughout the past years during President Michel Aoun's tenure. We want a brave man who does not get scared and who cannot be bought or sold,” Nasrallah went on to say.
“We want a president in Baabda who would reassure the resistance,” he stressed.
Noting that “the elements of strength in Lebanon must be preserved and one of the most posts concerned with this is the presidency,” Nasrallah noted that “vacuum in the presidency is not anyone's objective.”
He however stressed that “we should not rush to fill the void with any president.”
As for the fate of the sea border demarcation deal with Israel after Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power, Nasrallah said: “What's protecting Lebanon are God and the army-people-resistance equation of strength.”
“It makes no difference to us who wins the Israeli elections, because all Zionist governments are occupier, brutal and criminal,” Nasrallah added.
“Some consider their guarantee for the sea border deal to be U.S. commitment but our real guarantee is the elements of strength that Lebanon possesses,” Nasrallah went on to say.
Source: Naharnet
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