Report: Mustaqbal Movement to Support Geagea for Presidency

God Bless Mustaqbal and Mr. Hariri for supporting the only man that can save the Republic: Dr. Samir Geagea, the future President of Lebanon, the hero, the consummate gentleman, the Cedar of Lebanon.

Geagea has the determination and conviction to make decisions in the interests of the people. I was having dinner with a colleague of mine a Sunni from Beirut. I was surprised that Geagea has the highest approval rating among the Sunnis of Lebanon. Yet, he was their number one nemesis during the civil war. This goes to show how far Geagea has come since those days and how much trust he has garnered within the Sunni community. He obviously needs the approval of the Shia to become president; such approval seems to be far fetched, unfortunately.

Is that what Geagea meant when he said "Fal ya7kom al ikhwan!"?

Geagea is a failure in everything he does, short sighted

its all about berri n jumpalot they elect the president "."

these two boys in the picture are such a wonderful pair.

I think it might be time for a change. We need a new constitution that allows anyone who is a Lebanese citizen to run for president. The Presidency and every other office should be open to anyone who was born in Lebanon. The current system is an old dying dinosaur and will not last for long.

One person one vote! Lebanon is for everyone who is Lebanese.

I think aoun it will be the president not geagea

This story is from two days ago

Reports: Gemayel, Saniora Agree on March 14 Coordination to Choose Single Presidential Candidate

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/126609-reports-gemayel-saniora-agree-on-march-14-coordination-to-choose-single-presidential-candidate

Tt is up n the air right now. No one knows who will support who but, one thing for sure, this election will divide the M14ers, Mustaqbal and change the political dynamics in Lebanon for years to come.

It is up in the air

(1). I am pure LF and I should be dancing that the LF leader could become president of Lebanon. Yet I remain reticent for good reasons, reasons that I have already voiced several times in this forum. But that's now besides the point, here I just wanted to remember some highlights of history about why I believe in the youth, of Lebanon's youth, of the world's youth. I remember, even though I was still in primary school and I reread the books of history, of one of America's best presidents ever, John F. Kennedy. They killed him because America had no guts then. Then later again another great president came up, Bill Clinton. Both were young, youthful, dynamic and with the vision that the old guard could not muster so easily. We today are at some stage where the need to allow the new generation to take center stage is hindered by the old guard, so I ask why?

(2). Do we lack a good youth? Absolutely NOT. We are proud of our youth, in my opinion, they do us a lot of pride and their patriotism cannot be put under any doubt, nor their vision and professionalism nor their desire to work for the nation. If Geagea makes it, then mabrook to all the Lebanese, starting from the LF, but with a tinge of regret, that we missed another great youthful opportunity.

Is it 3:30 PM yet?

Thanks Slash, I was asking because come 3:30 PM and this thread will be turned upside down by some well known posters.

c'mon BJ let him in...

Al-Mustaqbal to announce its support for the candidacy of a mass-murdering warlord. This country is heading for hell!!!!

With President Sulieman's statement of support today for Geagea's Platform and this report, there is one thing for certain and one that hangs in the balance.
The thing for certain is that the endorsement of Geagea by Mustaqbel brings down the curtain on the Aoun bid for the Lebanese Presidency. Without Hezbollah or Mustaqbel, Aoun is dead in the water.
The thing that hangs in the balance here is Jumblatt and his bloc of deputies who could deliver the presidency to Geagea if Hezbollah will not extract too high a price, one that Jumblatt is not willing to pay.
No one wins on a first ballot that requires a 2/3 majority, but on subsequent ballots 65 votes win Jumblatt's 7 PSP votes moving from M8 to M14 secures a win with 68 votes.

The key to Jumblatt is security. He does not want May 7, 2008 repeated and if the election of Geagea will put the blackshirts on the streets again, then Jumblatt will not come along with M14.
On the other hand, if he sees a vacuum in the Office of the Presidency as opening the door for Hezbollah to bring the Syrian Civil War into Lebanon, this could move him to M14 and support Geagea as a guy who will keep the Syrian War in Syria. Geagea has said he wants to partner with Hezbollah and so Jumblatt could be the interlocutor who brings about that partnership. Should this accommodation be reached, Jumblatt would have to deliver it. Ironically, the ascendency of Geagea to the presidency rests with the efforts of Jumblatt. The old militia antagonists now need each other. Time changes all things, it seems.

I know that the Syrian War will not end before 2016. That is the year that the earliest deliveries of LNG from the US to Rotterdam can begin. The war in Syria is a holding pattern war to keep Qatar gas from traversing Syria to Turkey and then on to European Markets. As long as the Syrian crossroads are unstable, neither Iranian nor Qatar gas from the Pars Gas field in the Persian Gulf is going to European markets.

The instability in Ukraine, likewise is having the intermediate effect of turning EU natural gas customers away from Russian suppliers as unreliable and turning them instead to alternate suppliers, like the US. It will be more expensive, but a reliable supply. We are witnessing an energy war, created by the 2008 breakthrough in producing commercial quantities of oil and gas in the US by fracking. It has turned the entire market on its ear and these wars we are seeing are the product of that economic fact.

Oil and gas development off Lebanon's shore is dependent upon this election and the Ministries. Exxon/Mobile is very much involved in the exploration of the fields and want to be involved in the leasing of the sites. So everyone wants this election because development of the fields needs a government in Lebanon to oversee the process. Nothing like a little oil and gas to bring stability to government.

I'm against March 8 parties, but Geagea would be a bad choice of president right now. Someone is needed who will be a 3rd party to the 14/8 domination of politics and work to undo the bind that they have put Lebanon in.

What a sad day for Lebanon if this mass-murdering warlord is elected president . Al mustaqbal once again shows how deeper of a level of filth they can dig into. Bravo!