Geagea calls for reconsidering state structure if pro-Hezbollah president elected
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has stressed that the “strongest” presidential candidate until the moment is MP Michel Mouawad, noting that “his name is not proposed for entertainment purposes.”
The LF leader voiced his remarks during an overnight interview on al-Jadeed television.
Addressing Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Geagea said: “Do not bet that we might elect a candidate under pressure, even if it takes 50 years.”
“Let Sayyed Hassan know that we won’t reach the candidate that he is thinking of,” Geagea added.
“Should Hezbollah manage to secure the election of a president in the way it wants, the entire Lebanese structure must be reevaluated, seeing as it is unacceptable for us and the coming generations to remain under Hezbollah’s illegitimate hegemony,” the LF leader went on to say.
“At that moment, there should be a political reconsideration of the state structure that allows Hezbollah to manipulate it in order to prevent it from doing so and find a way to end its hegemony over the rest of the Lebanese,” Geagea said.
He added that the LF and the Free Patriotic Movement cannot agree on a presidential candidate “unless the proposal is acceptable, such as (FPM chief) Jebran Bassil’s support for Michel Mouawad for example.”
“If the FPM chief possessed any political sense, he would have done that,” Geagea added.
“The LF had backed the FPM in the past and it (the FPM) should have done the same this time, but Bassil is only thinking of his own election as president and he is proposing other names to destroy their chances,” the LF leader charged.
Source: Naharnet
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