Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stated on Thursday that the March 14 press conference scheduled for Friday will serve as the “final warning” for the March 8 camp to “cease its spiteful acts.”
He told the Central News Agency: “Strife may erupt if the dispute between the March 8 and 14 camps over government spending is not resolved.”
Full StoryThe March 14-led opposition will not hold a popular rally to mark the anniversary of the Cedar Revolution; instead it will hold a general assembly meeting.
Unlike all its popular rallies at downtown Beirut’s Martyrs Square held in previous years, the number of people attending the March 14, 2012 gathering will be limited because of the turmoil that took place in the Arab world over the past year.
Full StoryLebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea slammed on Friday Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s accusations that the March 14 camp is placing conditions on resuming the national dialogue.
He said during the launch of the LF charter: “We do not set conditions on the talks and you have never even seriously approached the national dialogue.”
Full StoryProgressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat criticized on Thursday the March 14-led opposition leaders’ rhetoric during a gathering organized in BIEL on ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s Feb. 14, 2005 assassination anniversary.
“The context of their speeches didn’t differ from that of last year, except for the tackling of the developments in Syria,” Jumblat told An Nahar newspaper.
Full StoryThe major reaction to the March 14 forces’ call on Hizbullah to hand over its arms to the Lebanese army will likely come through the party’s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, during a televised speech on Thursday.
During a gathering organized on Tuesday by the March 14 coalition in BIEL on ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s Feb. 14, 2005 assassination anniversary, the main speakers slammed Hizbullah and its arms.
Full StoryFree Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Tuesday hit back at Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea and Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel, who both earlier in the day called on the government to step down.
“As long as they have called on the government (to step down), its term will be extended,” Aoun said, in response to a question from a reporter after the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc in Rabiyeh.
Full StoryLebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Tuesday called on Hizbullah not to be “mistaken in its calculations,” stressing that “there is no future for any illegal arms and no future for any mini-state.”
Speaking at a rally held by the March 14 forces at the BIEL hall in Beirut to mark ex-PM Rafik Hariri’s seventh murder anniversary, Geagea said: “The moment of freedom, democracy and real statehood has come in the region, so do not be mistaken in your calculations.”
Full StoryThe opposition March 14 coalition will mark on Tuesday the 7th anniversary of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s assassination at a gathering of politicians, diplomats, activists and academicians that will be held in BIEL.
Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who is recuperating at his house in Paris from fractures in his leg, will make a speech through a giant screen at the event that starts at 4:00 pm.
Full StoryLebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea noted on Tuesday that the current government deadlock is linked to some sides in cabinet that “have never been productive.”
He told Voice of Lebanon radio: “The deadlock is also linked to the crisis in Syria.”
Full StoryLebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stated that the March 14-led opposition is capable of toppling the government through popular protests.
He added however: “The current circumstances are not suitable for such an action.”
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