Raad says Hezbollah seeking election of the president it wants

The head of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammed Raad, on Sunday announced that his party knows whom it wants for president.

“In the face of the presidential juncture, we know who we want and we are acting so that the person we want becomes president,” Raad said.

“Presidential vacuum is created by the failure to agree on a president who would befit our resistant people, and when this agreement happens, there will be a president,” he added.

“We’re in a hurry for that more than all the others and the issue is not about the loudness of the voice but rather about the seriousness of the act,” Raad went on to say.

Lamenting that some in Lebanon “are today showing the same intransigence that we faced in the obstruction of government formation,” the Hezbollah lawmaker said “they want a president selected by others abroad.”

“This will simply not happen, no matter how much time passes,” Raad warned.

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah had openly announced Friday that his party wants a president who would “reassure the resistance” and not “stab it in its back.”