Geagea: Efforts Ongoing to Convince Hariri With Aoun's Election

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Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea stated on Friday that the presidential file is complicated and that contacts with al-Mustaqbal Movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri are ongoing to convince him to elect the Change and Reform head MP Michel Aoun as president.

“MP Walid Jumblat has realized the actual situation and he prefers that a president is elected instead of the prolonging vacuum. Since the majority of the Christians have agreed on the election of Aoun, Jumblat has expressed readiness to vote for Aoun while contacts are ongoing with Hariri in that regard,” said Geagea to a popular delegation from the town of Tannourine.

Geagea stressed that “Hizbullah is not serious with the nomination of Aoun. The party cannot bear to lose its political alliance with Aoun and the Free Patriotic Movement but at the same time it does not wish to have Aoun as president.”

Pointing to the role of Iran in Lebanon, Geagea said: “Hizbullah is a major part of the Iranian strategy in the region. It has many concerns starting from Syria, Iraq and Yemen plus it is trying to keep Lebanon's presidency on hold to trade it later on for keeping the Syrian President Bashar Assad in Syria which is widely rejected by Gulf and Western countries.

He elaborated and said: “Hizbullah has two options: either have a powerful (Lebanese) republic and a weak party or a strong party and a weak republic.

“Hizbullah prefers to keep the status quo so it would remain without accountability, otherwise it goes for a president whom it is capable to control, concluded Geagea.

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Thumb galaxy 29 July 2016, 13:05

He does not make sense anymore. One one hand he says hizbullah is a tool of iran and on the other he is pushing for electing aoun who is tied to hizbullah.

Thumb liberty 30 July 2016, 04:37

محليات المعترضون في "التيار" سيبقون "أم الصبي" ولن ينشقّوا تجنب أخطاء أحزاب أخرى ولكن زمن الصمت انتهى

"ويرجع اطمئنان هؤلاء الى صلابة "التيار" وحيوية كوادره، اضافة الى علاقته بالحلفاء والتي لن تتغير مع "حزب الله" الذي لا ينظر الى الاسماء العونية المرشحة والاقتراع لها في دوائرهما المشتركة، اضافة الى الاسلوب نفسه الذي سينتهج مع "القوات اللبنانية". ويبقى السؤال الكبير هو ان خوض الانتخابات من دون وصول عون الى قصر بعبدا شيء والتوجه الى الاستحقاق المنتظر من دونه شيء آخر ومختلف، لأنه في الحالة الاولى سيتم التعاون اكثر مع "القوات" التي ستقايض باسيل كثيراً في قضاء البترون، ومن دون التحالف معها والحصول على اصواتها لن ينجح في الحلول في مقعد غريمه الوزير بطرس حرب.

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