Geagea wants 'confrontational' President to challenge Bassil, Hezbollah

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said Monday that the next president must be "confrontational".

"We want a confrontational president," Geagea said in a press conference, adding that recovery can not be achieved, unless a president who would challenge the Free Patriotic Movement and Hezbollah is elected.

Geagea said that he refuses any understanding with the so-called Axis of Defiance, and that he does not agree with his "friend" Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat who considered dialogue with Hezbollah as essential.

"We do not agree with his approach regarding the Presidency," Geagea said, adding that "Jumblat is not and has never been is the bosom of Hezbollah or any other party."

Geagea went on to say that the MPs or parties that will prevent the opposition from electing a new sovereign president, would be traitors as they would be contributing to keeping things "as they are today."