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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Geagea warns of Hezbollah-Bassil agreement on 'mediocre president'
2024-05-22
[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
leader Samir Geagea
....Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005....
has noted that "the presidency is a Lebanese issue par excellence," calling on MPs to "shoulder their responsibilities, especially the parliament speaker."

"We are awaiting the visit of French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian to Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
, because he is following up on the issue from all its aspects and is informed on the steps, especially in terms of specifying the characteristics that were announced for the election of a president during the meeting that was held in Doha around a year ago," Geagea said in an interview with MTV.

"I’m not very optimistic, but the five-nation committee (for Lebanon) must continue its work through pressing the Axis of Defiance to stop its obstructive role," Geagea added.

The LF leader also stressed that the committee in its latest statement "did not call for a (Speaker Nabih) Berri-style dialogue, but rather for consultations in the vein of what the Moderation bloc had suggested."

"These consultations have been ongoing since the beginning of the presidential vacuum, but they are facing obstruction from the Axis of Defiance due to the latter’s inability to secure the election of its candidate Suleiman Franjieh," Geagea added.

The LF leader also claimed that "there are under-the-table contacts, especially between (Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
chief) Jebran Bassil and Hezbollah, that might lead to an agreement on a mediocre president."

"We will do everything necessary to prevent the election of this candidate on whom Bassil and Hezbollah will agree," Geagea vowed.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Geagea says Hezbollah should bear responsibility for war's destruction and deaths
2024-04-06
[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
chief Samir Geagea
...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005...
has held Hezbollah responsible for the losses resulting from its cross-border conflict with Israel.

"We have incurred 350 to 400 victims in addition to the destruction of dozens of villages, direct economic losses that surpass millions of dollars and indirect losses that no one can accurately estimate," Geagea lamented in a Ramadan iftar banquet in Maarab.

Referring to Hezbollah and possibly Iran, the LF leader emphasized that "those who took the decision to implicate Lebanon Hezbollahstan
..the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity™, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade...
should bear the responsibility and consequences."

He added: "The government should immediately work on implementing Resolution 1701, because we have an interest in that. That would be accompanied by the deployment of the Lebanese Army along the southern Lebanese border, so that it defends every inch of Lebanese land, especially that everyone is behind it and the Arab countries and the entire world would support it and assist it."
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Geagea: Hezbollah will never withdraw from the South
2024-02-08
[NAHARNET] Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
leader Samir Geagea
...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005...
has accused Hezbollah of seeking to "obtain the presidency and Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
’s government in return for withdrawing weapons from the border" with Israel.

"These conditions are certainly unrealistic and rejected by the Lebanese, seeing as there will be no bargains nor settlements at the expense of Lebanon and its illusory sovereignty," Geagea said in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

Responding to a question, Geagea stressed that "Hezbollah will never withdraw from the South."

"It is deceiving the Americans and making them believe that," he added.

He also said that anyone thinking of a bargain involving the presidency and the border situation would be "dreaming."

"Our opposition will not allow any Hezbollah president," Geagea emphasized.

"Unfortunately we have not managed to disarm them, but we have prevented them from reaching the presidency," he added.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Geagea slams govt. for 'ceding strategic decisions to Hezbollah'
2024-01-18
[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
leader Samir Geagea
...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005...
on Wednesday lashed out at the caretaker government for "ceding the strategic military and security decisions to Hezbollah" and "putting the Lebanese people and Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
’s higher interests in the face of the region’s storms and the open conflicts among all its parties."

"At a time all Arab countries, from the biggest one to the smallest one, are distancing themselves from the ongoing conflict in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
and the Middle East, we don’t understand according to what logic Lebanon is being implicated in this war, especially that it is currently the smallest and poorest nation due to its ongoing financial, economic and political crisis," Geagea said in a written statement.

"Perhaps the caretaker government, seeing as it is acting in caretaker capacity, cannot carry out developmental projects and economic initiatives and cannot rehabilititate the infrastructure and so on, but at the core of its responsibilities lies the mission of sparing Lebanon war and confronting the dangerous things that threaten the citizen’s security, life, family, work, interests and future," Geagea added.

He also accused the government of "endorsing the Axis of Defiance’s stance on the ongoing wars in the Middle East."

Geagea is apparently referring to recent stances by caretaker PM Najib Mikati, who on Friday noted that pacifying the situation in south Lebanon without taking into consideration what’s happening in Gaza would be "illogical."

"Based on our Arab identity and principles, we demand a ceasefire in Gaza as soon as possible, in parallel with a serious ceasefire in Lebanon," Mikati added.

"We do not accept that our brothers be facing genocide and destruction as we seek an own agreement with anyone," the premier went on to say.

More than three months of cross-border violence have killed 190 people in Lebanon, including more than 140 Hezbollah fighters and over 20 civilians including three journalists. In northern Israel, nine soldiers and at least six civilians have been killed, according to Israeli authorities.

The violence has also displaced tens of thousands of residents on both sides of the border.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Geagea rejects president coming from Western 'deal' with 'Axis of Defiance'
2024-01-10
[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Tuesday accused the Hezbollah-led “Axis of Defiance” in Lebanon of linking the Lebanese presidency and the new government to “ongoing negotiations” with Western forces over the military situation in south Lebanon.

“This matter is totally rejected, seeing as the presidency will not be a consolation prize for the Axis of Resistance and will not be part of any deal whatsoever,” Geagea said.

“The issue of the presidency in Lebanon is an independent subject that has nothing to do with any other deal. After all that has happened in Lebanon and what the Lebanese citizen is living, we desperately need a real president more than ever, whose concern would be to not to manage the affairs of the Axis of Resistance nor to serve it, but rather to organize the matters of the Lebanese republic and cater to the interests of the Lebanese people,” the LF leader added.

“Yes, more than ever, we need a reformist president who would implement the necessary reforms, so that our doors can be open to the global economy again and so that our economy can be revived,” Geagea went on to say.

He added: “We reject any dummy president who does not enjoy the required characteristics during this period and who would come as part of a regional settlement that is being currently discussed.”

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Geagea slams Hezbollah for never keeping word, govt. for inaction after Hamas statement
2023-12-07
[NAHARNET] Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
leader Samir Geagea
...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005...
rejected Wednesday a Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
statement that announced the establishment in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
of a division called al-Aqsa Flood Vanguards and called on Paleostinian youths to join it.

"This statement is unacceptable and it violates Lebanon's illusory sovereignty," Geagea said.

After Hamas' statement sparked a storm of outrage in Lebanon, the group said it was misinterpreted and that the new division is a popular and not a military organization.

Geagea accused Hezbollah of approving Hamas' move and of never keeping its promises. "It is evident that Hamas is under the command of Hezbollah and it wouldn't carry out any military movements without its knowledge and approval," he said, adding that Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
had agreed during the 2006 Lebanese dialogue to disarm Paleostinians outside camps and to organize the use of arms inside camps.

Geagea also slammed the government and the caretaker ministers of Defense and Interior for not taking practical measures nor taking a firm position regarding what's happening. "The government is required to put pressure on Hezbollah to stop this farce."
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Lebanese Forces: 2023-07-26 Geagea says fighting battle to win country back
Related:
Samir Geagea: 2023-07-26 Geagea says fighting battle to win country back
Samir Geagea: 2023-05-23 Geagea slams 'reckless' Hezbollah as MP threatens to take up arms
Samir Geagea: 2023-04-07 Geagea addresses Lebanese govt. over South rockets
Related:
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Hassan Nasrallah: 2023-12-03 Fresh skirmishes between Israel and Hezbollah on Lebanon border
Related:
Hezbollah: 2023-12-05 Rockefeller Brothers Fund funding pro-Palestinian groups, at least one Israel calls ‘terrorist’ org
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Hezbollah: 2023-12-05 Fate of Hamas in south Gaza will be 'same and worse' as in north: Gallant
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Geagea says fighting battle to win country back
2023-07-26
[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
leader Samir Geagea
...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005...
said Tuesday that his party is fighting a battle, along with its allies, "to win back the country from its hijackers."

"If the Axis of Defiance manages to take control of the presidency, this would lead to a continued deterioration of the economic and financial situations and would aggravate the suffering of the Lebanese," Geagea added.

"We are fully aware that liberating the Lebanese decision and returning it to the official institutions is a long path, but we are determined to walk it without fatigue or hesitation," Geagea said.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Geagea slams 'reckless' Hezbollah as MP threatens to take up arms
2023-05-23
[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
leader Samir Geagea
...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005...
on Monday said the military drill that Hezbollah carried out Sunday in the South is "totally rejected at a time that the Lebanese are struggling night and day and every moment to rebuild their state and regain Arab and international confidence in this state."

"Hezbollah addressed a clear message to all Lebanese and the Arab and international communities by saying that ’no matter how much you try and seek, we will not allow the rise of a real state in Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
,’" Geagea said.

"Hezbollah is totally mistaken if it believes that this drill can boost the chances of its presidential candidate," he added.

"The drill is a reckless action that will only harm Lebanon ... and benefit Israel," the LF leader went on to say.

Kataeb Party chief Sami Gemayel for his part described the drill as "a provocation message against the Lebanese and the Arab Summit."

MP Nadim Gemayel meanwhile said the military exercise was "a message to the domestic arena more than being a message to Israel," threatening to "publicly carry arms and rebel against the state if officials do not take a stance over what happened."

"I might call on our supporters to carry visible weapons and not stop at checkpoints, because we’re supposed to be equal," he warned, in remarks to Asharq al-Awsat newspaper.

MP Ashraf Rifi for his part said "it was not a resistance movement that organized military parades, but rather a tool practicing hegemony."

"You won’t terrorize anyone with these bravadoes and we will be in your face," Rifi added.

"What you did contradicts with the spirit and text of the Taif Accord and remember that the ink of the resolutions of the Jeddah Arab Summit has not dried yet," Rifi went on to say.

Hezbollah put on a show of force on Sunday, extending a rare media invitation to one of its training sites in southern Lebanon, where its forces staged a simulated military exercise.

Masked fighters jumped through flaming hoops, fired from the backs of cycle of violences, and blew up Israeli flags posted in the hills above and a wall simulating the one at the border between Lebanon and Israel.

Senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine said in a speech Sunday that the exercise was meant to "confirm our complete readiness to confront any aggression" by Israel.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Geagea addresses Lebanese govt. over South rockets
2023-04-07
[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
leader Samir Geagea
...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005...
on Thursday addressed questions to the Lebanese government after dozens of rockets were fired from south Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
at northern Israel.

"What are the national obligations that necessitate firing dozens of rockets from south Lebanon at Israel at this very moment and what will the Lebanese government’s response be regarding its pledges to commit to the stipulations of Resolution 1701?" Geagea asked in a statement.

"What if a single windowpane gets shattered at the house of a Lebanese citizen in the South due to the exchange of rockets and artillery shelling? From where will the Lebanese government bring the necessary money to fix it? Not to mention the main, essential and urgent question: Has the Lebanese government met or taken the decision to fire the rockets from the South at Israel?" the LF leader added.

"By ceding the state’s strategic decision to the Axis of Defiance, the Lebanese government would be renouncing its main responsibilities of preserving the security of the country and its citizens," Geagea warned.

He added that "a presidential candidate who would not pledge to return the entire strategic decision to the Lebanese state would not be eligible to be a candidate nor a president."

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Geagea says rejected deal involving Franjieh election
2023-03-05
[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
leader Samir Geagea
...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005...
has confirmed that he has rejected "domestic and foreign" proposals for the election of Suleiman Franjieh as president in return for the appointment of a pro-opposition premier.

In an interview with The Independent Arabia, Geagea also said that he does not believe that Hezbollah might back down from supporting Franjieh in the current period.

"But if it decides so, it will pick a candidate with no flavor, color, stance or personality, and we would take the same stance on such a candidate," Geagea added.

He also accused Hezbollah of seeking to secure the election of a president who would be 100% loyal to it and who would implement its policies, or else it would "block the elections."

Asked about his new stance on boycotting presidential election sessions, Geagea said it would be "idiotic" to facilitate the election of a pro-Hezbollah president after the president and its allies "changed the rules of the democratic game and suspended the constitution" for five months.

"They can’t obstruct when they want and then suddenly ask us to facilitate the election of their candidate," the LF leader added.

"When the negotiators asked me about the reason behind my rejection of Franjieh I clarified that the problem is not in the person of the Marada Movement
the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war, currently Syrian toadies, but you never know when that could change...
leader, but rather in making steps that would aggravate the crisis instead of resolving it," Geagea went on to say.

He added: "Should Franjieh become president, he will rule based on the force that he relied on to reach the presidency, which is Hezbollah and its allies."

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Geagea says Hezbollah and its allies carrying out a 'farce'
2023-02-07
[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
leader Samir Geagea
...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005...
on Monday said "Hezbollah, today more than ever, wants to secure the election of its (presidential) candidate."

"In its visits to independent MPs it is trying to collect votes, after having failed to convince (Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
chief Jebran) Bassil to elect (Marada Movement
the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war, currently Syrian toadies, but you never know when that could change...
chief Suleiman) Franjieh," Geagea said after a meeting for the Strong Republic bloc.

"On the one hand, Hezbollah and its allies are insisting on dialogue and on the other they are clinging to their candidate. Accordingly, we are before a farce," the LF leader added, stressing that his party will not accept a "helpless president."

As for Bkirki’s call for dialogue, Geagea said: "Our communication with Bkirki is ongoing and we are not against any meeting, but we are with holding meetings that would lead to a result, especially that the people are exhausted."

Separately, the LF leader said today’s caretaker cabinet meeting was "illegal."

He also said that the meeting that will be held Monday in Gay Paree by officials from the U.S., Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, Egypt and La Belle France will not tackle the names of any presidential candidates.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Geagea rules out deal with Bassil, rejects president not backed by Christians
2023-02-02
[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
leader Samir Geagea
...Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005...
has ruled out cooperation with Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
chief Jebran Bassil in the presidential file, as he warned against electing a president not enjoying the support of the two main Christian parties — the LF and the FPM.

"A president cannot be elected against the will of Christians. If someone believes that they can elect a president against the will of the majority of Christians, then they are mistaken. This is not a way to behave, seeing as everyone knows the reality of constitutional posts," Geagea said in an interview with Kuwait’s al-Rai newspaper.

"With such a proposal, instead of making a step that would restore the confidence of the Lebanese in their state and the confidence of the world in Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...The land area formerly occupied by the state of Lebanon, before that Phoenicia...
, you would be starting without the confidence of the majority of the Lebanese," Geagea added.

As for the nomination of Army Commander General Joseph Aoun for the post of president, the LF leader said: "If the problem would be solved through the election of the army chief, we would not mind."

Asked whether he might agree with Bassil on a candidate should he sense that Marada Movement
the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war, currently Syrian toadies, but you never know when that could change...
chief Suleiman Franjieh is about to secure 65 votes, Geagea said Bassil’s call for agreeing on a third candidate "entails deception."

"So far, Bassil thinks that he can be the serious candidate, and if after a month or two or three finds out that he is incapable of being a serious candidate, he will seek to have the main say in the president," the LF leader added.

Asked about the deteriorating relation between the FPM and Hezbollah, Geagea said: "In my opinion, whatever happens, Bassil and Hezbollah will not end their alliance. They disagree over certain interests, but they will not go separate ways, because the interests that Hezbollah provides for Bassil cannot be provided by anyone else and vice versa."
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