"We demand the restoration of our democratic system, because we have been living for years in a state of disorder," al-Rahi said in his Christmas message.
He also called for "recovering our state, because we are living outside its boundaries and it is living outside its legitimacy, constitution and National Pact."
The patriarch also reiterated that "the only gateway for salvation and rescue would be declaring
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective....’s positive and active neutrality, in line with the National Pact that rejects turning Lebanon into a place or passageway for any foreign presence."