Geagea Speaks of New Status Quo After Feb. 14

Lebanese forces leader Samir Geagea said the Feb. 14 mass rally has created a new status quo under which all demands by the Hizbullah-led opposition over the future cabinet have become obsolete.

 

“All suggestions and proposals that March 8 forces have been relying on to market their political plans have collapsed,” Geagea was quoted as saying by An Nahar daily Wednesday.

 

The mass rally to commemorate the anniversary of ex-Premier Rafik Hariri”s assassination on Feb. 14 left “no doubt that the March 14 forces are backed by the majority of the Lebanese people and particularly the Christians,” he said.

 

All parties have to take this as the basis in the new status quo, he told An Nahar.

 

He said that it was impossible to implement in the aftermath of Feb. 14 what was being suggested before the mass rally.

 

About attempts by Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa to end Lebanon”s presidential crisis, Geagea said: “The LF and all March 14 forces support the Arab League imitative and will continue to do so as long as it stands.”

 

The initiative calls for the election of Army Chief Gen. Michel Suleiman president, the formation of a national unity government in which no one party has veto power and the adoption of a new electoral law.

 

“We are waiting for Moussa”s return…hoping that he would have more luck this time in convincing the other party to head to parliament on Tuesday and elect a new president,” he said.