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Geagea says Hezbollah and its allies carrying out a 'farce'
2023-02-07
[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
leader 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...
on Monday said "Hezbollah, today more than ever, wants to secure the election of its (presidential) candidate."

"In its visits to independent MPs it is trying to collect votes, after having failed to convince (Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
chief Jebran) Bassil to elect (Marada Movement
the personal militia of Suleiman Franjieh, president of Lebanon at the outbreak of the civil war, currently Syrian toadies, but you never know when that could change...
chief Suleiman) Franjieh," Geagea said after a meeting for the Strong Republic bloc.

"On the one hand, Hezbollah and its allies are insisting on dialogue and on the other they are clinging to their candidate. Accordingly, we are before a farce," the LF leader added, stressing that his party will not accept a "helpless president."

As for Bkirki’s call for dialogue, Geagea said: "Our communication with Bkirki is ongoing and we are not against any meeting, but we are with holding meetings that would lead to a result, especially that the people are exhausted."

Separately, the LF leader said today’s caretaker cabinet meeting was "illegal."

He also said that the meeting that will be held Monday in Gay Paree by officials from the U.S., Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
, Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, Egypt and La Belle France will not tackle the names of any presidential candidates.
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