Geagea: LF to boycott presidential vote if Hezbollah candidate has 65 votes
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has considered any dialogue with Hezbollah and the FPM over presidency, as unlikely.
"All of Hezbollah's calls for dialogue are fake and misleading," Geagea said, in remarks published Wednesday, as he told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that when Hezbollah calls for dialogue, what it really wants is discussing the nomination of Marada leader Suleiman Franjieh.
Geagea said that he knows Hezbollah's tactics in presidential elections, accusing the party of letting the crisis exacerbate to force other parties to elect the candidate that it wants.
But Geagea considered that electing a president nominated by Hezbollah would worsen the situation and affirmed that the LF would boycott the presidential election sessions if Hezbollah managed to secure 65 votes for its candidate.
"If Hezbollah's candidate gets elected, it would further isolate Lebanon from the Arab world and the West," Geagea said. "We would boycott that session."
The LF leader went on to say that his party has been contacted by two sides, one international and the other local, which suggested that the LF accepts Franjieh's election as part of a certain deal.
Geagea said he refused the deal, and that the only middle-ground candidate that he might accept is a moderate and flexible president who has good relations with all parties, but not a weak consensual president who has no opinion, can't take decisions or make achievements.
Source: Naharnet
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