Geagea Calls for Forming Technocrat Govt: They Want Interior Portfolio to Confront STL
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Monday called for forming a technocrat cabinet, describing that as “the only solution to rescue the country from the current impasse.”
“A national unity cabinet is out of the question because we can’t reach an agreement on the major issues,” Geagea added in an interview with MTV.
Geagea voiced his belief that President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister-designate Najib Miqati will try hard to form a cabinet that is “close to their policies and somehow represents the Lebanese situation,” noting that Hizbullah was acting “as if it has nothing to lose.”
“Hizbullah and Syria, which are the main players in the new majority, want a ‘confrontation’ cabinet that would revoke the cooperation protocols signed between Lebanon and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and provide a political cover for Hizbullah’s arms,” Geagea charged.
He accused the Hizbullah-led camp of seeking to obtain the interior ministry portfolio, and consequently to control the Internal Security Forces’ Intelligence Bureau, because of the aforementioned bureau’s current cooperation with the U.N.-backed STL.
Geagea also accused Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun of being “too much taken with the idea of regaining certain posts, which he wants at the expense of anything else.”
“This is not a plan to build the State, and even if the new cabinet was formed, it’s impossible that a State be built with the scheme of Hizbullah and its allies,” he added.
“Aoun’s defending of the Resistance is mere political repositioning as he only wants to achieve political gains,” the LF leader went on to say.
Answering a question, Geagea said he does not believe there will be another Saudi-Syrian initiative to break the deadlock in Lebanon for the time being “given the current events in the Arab region.”
“Saudi Arabia is unlikely to get involved in such a process given the fate of the (unsuccessful) first initiative,” Geagea added.
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