March 8 Using Threat Logic after Losing Hopes of Winning Elections
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said Saturday that March 8 Forces sought "destruction" because they had no chance to win the June 7 parliamentary elections.
"Those with no more hope left of winning (the elections) resort to destruction," he told a visiting delegation from Byblos.
"Five months ago we saw the other party losing hope in winning the upcoming parliamentary elections. That”s why it began using the logic of threat, attack and misleading facts," he said.
"Everything we are witnessing these days does not bring good news although we always call for positive" steps, Geagea said.
The LF leader also accused Telecommunications Minister Jebran Bassil of procrastination in providing information to the U.N. commission investigating ex-Premier Rafik Hariri”s assassination.
"Officials from the international investigation commission complained to the government three or four months ago … about delays in obtaining information," Geagea told his visitors.
"It became clear that what happened is a procrastination by the minister of telecommunications," he said.
Geagea said that if Bassil sees the wiretapping law was not being implemented he has to inform the interior and defense ministries as well as the presidency and the prime minister”s office.
"He does not have the right to obstruct wiretapping that has been going on since 1994 or since the days wiretapping started," Geagea said about the telecommunications minister.
He questioned the intentions of the minister, saying: "There is a question mark regarding the behavior of Minister Bassil who has overstepped his authority."