Geagea: Dialogue on Electoral Law is Ongoing with Our Allies
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stressed on Monday the importance of dialogue in reaching an agreement over a parliamentary electoral law.
He told Radio Orient: “Dialogue over the law is ongoing with all our allies.”
“Such issues should be discussed behind closed doors in order for all sides to reach an agreement over this issue,” he said.
On Last week’s Maronite meeting at Bkirki to discuss the electoral law and their advocating of the Orthodox gathering proposals on the matter, Geagea commented: “All remarks on the issue should be taken into consideration because the electoral law concerns all Lebanese.”
The Orthodox gathering proposed that each sect elect its own MPs based on proportional representation.
Regarding the security incidents that have taken place in Lebanon recently, the LF leader noted: “These developments will take place as long as there are armed groups outside of the state’s control.”
“The only solution to the situation lies in dissolving all armed groups,” he stressed.
Furthermore, Geagea ruled out the eruption of great unrest in Lebanon given the various security incidents in the country, adding however that greater instability may be created if some sides wanted to.
“The Lebanese government should take a clear decision to deploy the army along the Lebanese-Syrian border and order the security forces to diligently monitor the security in the areas that have witnessed armed clashes,” he suggested.
Clashes erupted on Friday at Zaidaniyeh-Aisha Bakkar neighborhood between Amal and Hizbullah supporters.
The gunfight erupted over an argument on a parking space.
Addressing the Syria’s signing of a protocol on implementing an Arab deal to end the crisis and allowing observers to monitor the situation in the country, Geagea said: “I don’t think the situation will be resolved through initiatives. The situation in Syria requires a radical solution.”
“The majority of the Syrian people are demanding that the current regime be changes and therefore any initiative that does not achieve this demand is a waste of time,” he stressed.
In addition, he ruled out the possibility that the unrest in Syria may spill over into Lebanon.
“This however depends on the Lebanese government. If it takes a serious and clear decision to keep Lebanon away from the unrest, then the country will be able to overcome it peacefully,” he stated.
“If the situation along the Lebanese-Syrian border remains as it is however… then we may witness some negative repercussions,” he noted.
19 December 2011, 18:50
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As Geagea always says: amn al moujtama3 al 7ariri fawqa kol e3tibar. Thank you very much.
19 December 2011, 19:07
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@mowaten: you really are a psychotic self-centered, self serving and arrogant individual. Do you have a day job, or you get paid to comment on every article published on this site?
19 December 2011, 19:30
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those defending the syrian regime are acknowledging the horrors syria did in lebanon, no wonder they thanked the regime in 2005...
and to mowaten yes geagea is right when he says that the gvt is responsible for the peace in the country. aren t they in charge of that?
if it let people use arms then it s like if they agree on it...
or if i m wrong then tell us who is in charge of the security and the peace in the country for the citizens? hezbollah? amal?
20 December 2011, 04:04
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People IQ is always shown when they comment negatively on the rock that stood against the wind for 30 yrs of wars including the dark age of the rapists of freedom. Without this person in the picture there would not be something called true Lebanese Resistance against the invaders of freedom (Syrian regime who used the Palestinians in 1975 until today, used the shiites from 1982 until today, used the aounists since the tsunami return to Lebanon from paris)
20 December 2011, 08:30
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Thanks dagger, couldn't have said it any better myself. Though I am not sure he is an "individual" per se, more like an "it".
20 December 2011, 10:13
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Hey mowaten and sweatinghezshitan, i have 1 question please answer. When your in iran or syria are you allowed to use the internet? legit question answer me
20 December 2011, 15:12
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First time in recent history that Lebanon's & Syria's peoples meet on basics as democracy and freedoms. First time too that they claim the same enemy: totalitarianism. In Lebanon, fundamentalist Shia-Khamenei militia and Assads Gang's proxies. In Syria, the same, by names. Geagea has got it right, once again, and gives Lebanese as well as Syrians rendez-vous with History. What remains is nothing but bla bla.
