Geagea Heads to Saudi for 'Talks with Top Officials'

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Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea traveled to Saudi Arabia on Monday evening on an “official visit.”

“The chief of the LF party left this evening for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia via Beirut's airport, on an official visit during which he will meet with top Saudi officials,” Geagea's press office said in a statement.

The LF leader's visit comes amid protracted vacancy at the Baabda Palace that had started on May 25, amid a boycott of electoral sessions by the MPs of Hizbullah and the Free Patriotic Movement in protest at Geagea's nomination.

The LF chief has recently insisted that he will not pull out of the race unless the other camp changes its stances, knowing that he had several times expressed his willingness to withdraw if the rival camps agree on a “consensual” candidate.

The press office did not elaborate on whether Geagea intends to meet in the kingdom with al-Mustaqbal movement leader MP Saad Hariri, who has since January 2011 lived in self-imposed exile between Jeddah and Paris over security concerns.

The two leaders have recently voiced conflicting stances regarding the issue of the parliamentary elections, with Hariri rejecting that the polls be held before the presidential vote and Geagea supporting such a move.

Y.R.

Comments 9
Thumb ex-fpm 20 October 2014, 21:33

When Aoun and Nassrallah go to Iran and Syria, they go for "humanitarian" reasons:)

Default-user-icon Kanaadian.Karim (Guest) 20 October 2014, 22:33

good one lol

Default-user-icon hassan (Guest) 21 October 2014, 02:26

maybe his going to convert to Islam ..

Thumb nickjames 21 October 2014, 06:19

Again, Flamey deleted his comments...

Default-user-icon politicalty correct (Guest) 21 October 2014, 06:35

Dr Geagea???? what a joke!! Isn't he embarrassed? He never graduated nor practiced medicine!

Thumb galaxy 21 October 2014, 09:05

lol, your Bashar is an eye doctor. He knows how to take them out

Default-user-icon UmmaGumma (Guest) 21 October 2014, 11:58

Geagea is late for Hajj season; perhaps he would do Umrah.
All for the mighty Buck.. What a Joke..

Missing greatpierro 21 October 2014, 16:17

Aoun did go to Iran so M8 should not criticize Geagea for visiting KSA but instead should praise him because KSA is arming the LAF whereas Iran is arming a terrorist militia.

Thumb Maxx 21 October 2014, 20:28

La sama7 Allah! But seriously, at least as a war criminal Geagea served his term in prison; Aoun, on the other hand, went on a paid vacation, and Hasan is still building his credentials as a war criminal.