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...
said Thursday that any presidential candidate backed by Hezbollah would lead to "a further collapse."
Geagea reiterated his categorical rejection to the election of Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
chief Jebran Bassil or Marada leader Suleiman Franjieh.
He accused again Hezbollah and its allies of obstructing the election of a new president.
"They are obstructing (the election sessions) until the situation worsens in the country, to pressure us to accept their candidate as a better option than vacuum," Geagea said of Hezbollah. "This is unfortunately their logic."
He added that his party will never accept Hezbollah's candidate.
"We have learned from the last time we agreed on the name of General Michel Aoun
...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...that any Hezbollah candidate will lead the country to more deterioration, calamities and tragedies," Geagea said. "We will never do it again."