Speaker Nabih Berri has accused Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea of manipulating politicians after he became incapacitated to launch verbal attacks on his long-time rival Free Patriotic Movement founder MP Michel Aoun.
“Geagea is sitting up there and manipulating us,” he said about the LF chief's residence in the mountainous town of Maarab.
“He is no longer capable of attacking Aoun as he used to do,” Berri told pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat published on Tuesday.
Last week, Geagea's support for the candidacy of Aoun sparked a war of words between the LF chief and the Speaker.