Geagea willing to run for presidency, floats idea of early polls
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has said that he is willing to announce his nomination for the presidency “if there is an acceptable number of parliamentary blocs that are willing to endorse this nomination.”
“Nominating oneself is not heroism,” he noted, an in interview with the Hala London TV.
Noting that some candidates who were proposed in the past are no longer suitable because the country has entered a “new situation,” Geagea said the Jan. 9 electoral session might not produce a president because he senses that “a number of blocs are dealing with things the same way they did in the past.”
“In the face of this situation, I’m not proposing nor demanding, but it is permissible to mull early parliamentary polls, seeing as we cannot face the new situation with an old parliament,” the LF leader added.
Source: Naharnet
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