Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea noted Tuesday that the election of a new president would resolve the country's growing political crisis, as he stressed that only the army should be entrusted with defending the country.
“If the obstruction of the presidential election is causing governmental crises, then the solution is not further obstruction but rather the immediate election of a president who would restore the regularity of the work of the government, the parliament and the rest of institutions,” said Geagea at an LF ceremony in Maarab.
“They speak of a strong president while they are impeding the presidential vote, which leaves us without a presidency or a president -- neither a strong one, nor moderate, nor weak,” Geagea added.
He slammed the rival camp for turning the state into a “weak state” and for pushing citizens to a “state of instability at the political, security, economic and social levels.”