Geagea slams FPM over decision to attend legislative session

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea on Friday blasted the Free Patriotic Movement over its reported decision to attend a legislative session that Speaker Nabih Berri intends to call for.

“If reports turn out to be true that the FPM intends to attend a legislative session that Speaker Nabih Berri is inclined to call for early next week, this would mean that the FPM has not settled for the damages that it has inflicted on the Lebanese, topped by Christians, over the past six years,” Geagea said in a statement.

“It turned their days into nights and their lives into hell, and now it is insisting to pursue them and disturb their lives, all for a handful of posts,” the LF leader added.

“FPM chief MP Jebran Bassil had attacked the government throughout the past months, seeing as it was meeting in the absence of a president, whereas the constitution granted this government the possibility to meet in emergency and urgent situations,” Geagea reminded.

“Today we see him preparing himself to take part in a legislative session not allowed by the constitution, which considers that during presidential vacuum parliament turns into an electoral body pending the election of a new president,” the LF leader added.

He accordingly accused the FPM of lacking “reason and proper behavior.”