Geagea: LF to boycott presidential vote if Hezbollah candidate has 65 votes
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has considered any dialogue with Hezbollah and the FPM over presidency, as unlikely.
"All of Hezbollah's calls for dialogue are fake and misleading," Geagea said, in remarks published Wednesday, as he told Asharq al-Awsat newspaper that when Hezbollah calls for dialogue, what it really wants is discussing the nomination of Marada leader Suleiman Franjieh.
Geagea said that he knows Hezbollah's tactics in presidential elections, accusing the party of letting the crisis exacerbate to force other parties to elect the candidate that it wants.
But Geagea considered that electing a president nominated by Hezbollah would worsen the situation and affirmed that the LF would boycott the presidential election sessions if Hezbollah managed to secure 65 votes for its candidate.
"If Hezbollah's candidate gets elected, it would further isolate Lebanon from the Arab world and the West," Geagea said. "We would boycott that session."
The LF leader went on to say that his party has been contacted by two sides, one international and the other local, which suggested that the LF accepts Franjieh's election as part of a certain deal.
Geagea said he refused the deal, and that the only middle-ground candidate that he might accept is a moderate and flexible president who has good relations with all parties, but not a weak consensual president who has no opinion, can't take decisions or make achievements.
01 March 2023, 14:19
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No Brainer. No more free gift to the occupation by Iran's Foreign Legion!
01 March 2023, 20:22
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Lebanon as a nation has died. The last elections confirmed 1/3 of the Country wants the Iranian model and the remaining 2/3 want to preserve Lebanon’s freedom, democracy and culture. No one can impose the Iranian model by force, a model blamed for Lebanon’s woes and trip to hell. A divorce is inevitable to avoid a civil war. The big question is whether the free 2/3 should be united or joined in a federal structure. Christian and Druze, regardless of their leadership, are natural allies with deep roots that should bond them forever and make them defender of freedom and democracy. Tripoli and Akkar were the princesses of the revolution. They are the human reservoir, and future engineers and technicians to rebuild Lebanon. So it is obvious the 2/3 should remain united and independent from Hizbollahstan. This importer cancer that has bankrupted a nation, destroyed our freedom and sovereignty, and made us a beggar nation with no honor or security.
