Former President Amin Gemayel said Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's latest speech was a "real shock" to the Christians more than ever, and ridiculed Hezbollah's "clever" strategy to impose its Christian ally Gen. Michel Aoun as the next president.Gemayel said that Nasrallah's latest address, in which he revealed potential plans for having presidential elections crippled unless the pro-government March 14 coalition abides by the opposition's demands, have "raised fears among Christians." He also lashed out at Hezbollah 's second in command Sheikh Naim Qassem who said in recent remarks that presidential elections would take place "only if the ruling team and the opposition agreed on the name of the future president."
Gemayel said March 14 was "never against agreement in principle on a president who would represent all Lebanese Â… under the guardianship of Bkirki." He said Nasrallah's wished-for strategy of avoiding pointing out Aoun during his fiery Easter speech March 8, as well as Qassem's comments were a "clever maneuver to impose Aoun as the next president." He said that this strategy contradicts with the "concepts of partnership and collaboration strongly advocated by Hezbollah."