...
Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem
... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
noted on Wednesday that the current conditions in Leb are not appropriate to stage the presidential elections.
He said: "There is therefore no point to hold presidential election sessions if these conditions persist."
"Whether a second, third, or fourth session is held and if the circumstances remain, the result will remain clear and that is that a president will not be elected," he added.
Moreover, Qassem said that the first presidential election session, held on April 17, demonstrated that one's nomination for the elections "does not clear one's history."
He made his remark in reference to Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
chief
Samir Geagea... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ...
's nomination and his role in Leb's 1975-90 civil war.
"A person's history cannot be erased through putting on a show by running in the elections. On the contrary, his candidacy will only remind the people of his negative aspects," said the Hizbullah official.
Returning to the presidential elections, he said that the current sectarian reality and political divide in Leb do not allow a single party from electing its own president.
"We are therefore better off electing a president through an agreement," he stressed.
"Such agreements are made through contacts outside of the parliamentary session in order for the foes to reach common ground," Qassem explained.
"The foes should agree on a president who is strong on popular, political, and moral levels, who does not provoke others, but instead seeks solutions to problems, who works for national partnership, and who defends Leb and its resistance," he added.