LF: Real Vacuum is Current Situation that is Burdened with Assassinations
The Lebanese Forces parliamentary bloc on Monday stressed that the bomb attack that killed Intelligence Bureau chief Maj. Gen. Wissam al-Hasan and three other people “requires rejecting the conventional approaches” towards such incidents.
In a statement issued after an emergency meeting in Maarab headed by LF leader Samir Geagea, the bloc said “the call for speeding up investigations into this crime is an approach that did not solve the mystery of any of the previous bombings, knowing that the martyr Major General was the one behind unveiling some of the plots that others sought to conceal.”
The bloc voiced support for “the measures taken by the army to restore security,” after al-Hasan's assassination sparked deadly clashes in Tripoli and Beirut.
The conferees also stressed that the bombing “requires the immediate resignation of the government and the restructuring of the executive power in a manner that fills the scandalous security and judicial gaps and reassures the Lebanese.”
Addressing the issue of concerns of possible political vacuum in the country should the current government resign, the LF bloc said “the real and more dangerous vacuum is the current situation that is burdened with assassinations and assassination attempts … in addition to the dangerous security phenomenons, chaos and hegemony over the state.”
“The presence of 30 ministers around the cabinet table does not mean that there is a responsible government,” the bloc added.
It noted that there cannot be a “government of unity between the murderer and the victim.”
The LF bloc also announced that it will boycott any national dialogue and parliamentary meeting until a new government is formed.
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