Raad Says Void Better than President Elected by 'Majority Lacking Clear Vision'
Hizbullah's top lawmaker Mohammed Raad noted Sunday that his party prefers continued presidential vacuum over the election of a head of state by “a majority lacking a clear vision for confronting the threats that are facing the country.”
“Betting on the election of a president by a majority lacking a clear vision for confronting the threats that are facing the country will make us lose our entire homeland, even if that happens in a constitutional manner,” Raad warned.
“The country is now safeguarded, and we hope a constitutional act will come to preserve the achievements of the resistance fighters and the accomplishments of this country's people,” the head of the Loyalty to Resistance bloc added.
Hizbullah, the Free Patriotic Movement and some of their allies have been boycotting electoral sessions aimed at choosing a new president for more than a year now. They are demanding that political parties agree on a candidate before heading to parliament for a vote.
“We are very keen on electing a president for the Lebanese republic as soon as possible, but we don't tolerate crippling state institutions over the continued disagreement on the president's affiliation and characteristics,” Raad added, referring to the paralyzed cabinet and parliament.
“We want the cabinet and the parliament to convene, and should we disagree over this necessity we must not disagree over the fact that this country must be for all its sons and that no one in it can eliminate or exclude others,” the lawmaker went on to say.
Turning to Hizbullah's military intervention in Syria, Raad said his party has “made great progress in confronting the takfiris' threat.”
"The current action in Syria is aimed at completing what we have already achieved in order to find a political settlement that does not involve the realization of any of these groups' objectives,” he said.
Raad noted that the current Vienna negotiations over Syria's crisis “will definitely affect our situation in Lebanon.”
“But with all due honesty, and without any illusions, we do not trust a lot of the parties who are meeting in Vienna … because we cannot be reassured about a party sitting around the negotiations table and, at the same time, supplying the takfiri terrorists with the most modern of weapons,” Raad added.
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