Geagea Lashes Out at Nasrallah, Says Syrian Regime Will Fall despite Hizbullah Support
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea slammed on Wednesday Hizbullah's chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, saying that the Syrian regime doesn't need the party's intervention in battles on its territories.
“The Syrian regime will collapse and you will not be able to stop history from writing itself,” Geagea said during a televised speech.
He wondered that if the regime was strong then it would protect al-Qusayr and the Sayyeda Zainab shrine.
“Your claims that you are defending the Lebanese in the Syrian border town of al-Qusayr and the shrine of Sayyeda Zainab are merely to justify your military intervention in the neighboring country,” Geagea said.
On Tuesday evening, Nasrallah acknowledged that members of his group are fighting inside Syria to help the Lebanese in Syria’s border town of al-Qusayr, assuring that the party prides itself in its martyrs.
He announced that Hizbullah fighters are defending holy places in the area: “Armed groups are only hundreds of meters away from the Sayyeda Zainab shrine and Takfirist groups launched clear threats on the Internet that they will destroy the shrine should they enter the area."
Concerning the formation of the cabinet, Geagea said that Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam has so far failed to form it as some parties consider that they “own certain portfolios.”
Salam has announced that he wants to form a 24-member government with rotational portfolios. He has also rejected having electoral candidates in the executive authority whose only mission would be the supervision of the parliamentary elections.
Geagea also pointed out that some sides are obstructing all the efforts to reach an electoral law.
The political powers have so far failed to reach an agreement on an alternative law, threatening to postpone the parliamentary elections that are scheduled for June 16.
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