Geagea calls on Berri to call for successive presidential vote rounds

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has lauded the statement issued Monday by the five-nation group on Lebanon, saying it was “based on the Lebanese constitution, the international and Arab League resolutions, and the sovereign and reformist priority for any president and political authority.”

“Accordingly, this statement has permanently thwarted the attempt by some parties inside the country, especially the Axis of Defiance, to bet on the stance of Lebanon’s friends to either elect the Defiance candidate or to clench illegitimate gains in return for ending their obstruction of the presidential vote,” Geagea added.

And noting that the Doha statement called for “letting constitutional mechanisms take their natural course, starting by the election of a new president to the designation of a premier and the formation of a government,” the LF leader noted that “Lebanon’s friends” want “the rise of a true state in Lebanon” and “the implementation of all international resolutions.”

He accordingly called on the “defiance forces” to “stop wasting the precious time of the Lebanese with the hope of changing equations,” calling on Speaker Nabih Berri to “quickly call for a presidential election session with successive rounds that would lead to the election of a president.”