Geagea Warns from Syrian-Iranian Influence if March 8 Wins Polls
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea warned that a possible victory of the March 8 alliance would place Lebanon in the heart of the confrontation between the West and Tehran.
“The March 8 plan is based on putting Lebanon in the heart of the row between the West and Iran,” Geagea warned in an interview with Marcel Ghanem’s Kalam el-Nass talk show late Tuesday.
Syria and Iran could regain a role in decision-making if the March 8 forces win the elections. “That’s why the polls are decisive,” he said.
The LF leader didn’t rule out the possibility of having Adnan Addoum as justice minister or Jamil Sayyed as interior minister if March 8 wins. The Lebanese state will be as it was between 1990 and 2005, he added.
Geagea was confident that the March 14 alliance would win Sunday’s polls.
“Surveys reveal that the March 14 will win the elections. If we win the polls, we will work toward strengthening state institutions,” he said in the interview.
Geagea said the understanding between the Free Patriotic Movement and Hizbullah was a cover of FPM leader Gen. Michel Aoun’s relationship with Hizbullah “in an effort to confront us.”
The opposition was the side carrying out the assassinations in the past few years, according to Geagea. “This doesn’t mean Gen. Aoun or Hizbullah. It means the opposition overall. Otherwise, why did the killings stop after the Doha Accord?”
The LF leader unveiled that Speaker Nabih Berri “was the mediator” in an offer to release Geagea from jail in return for running the 2005 elections in the north against the March 14 lists.
“MP Michel Aoun returned from Paris under the same deal that was proposed to me to get out of jail in 2005,” Geagea said.