Nasrallah”s “Popular Majority” Inconsistent with Taef
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea criticized on Wednesday Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah”s latest remarks that his party had the most popular support despite its loss to the March 14 alliance in the parliamentary elections.
"This is in violation of the Taef agreement because (parliamentary) seats are equally divided between Christians and Muslims regardless of the two team”s numbers," Geagea told Lebanese expatriates who visited him in Merab.
"The resistance choice is not a choice of an armed group, but a popular choice proved in recent elections," Nasrallah said on Monday, pointing to a difference between a "parliamentary majority" and a "popular majority."
Geagea, however, lauded Nasrallah”s acceptance of the official results with sportsmanship and in a democratic spirit.
He also said that the March 14 coalition received more than 50% of Christian votes in Sunday”s elections.
Geagea told his visitors that it was the right of expatriates to vote. "Imagine that we do not bring in expatriates … particularly that this is their legitimate and legal right."
"Those who say that the expatriates were bought, are committing a crime against Lebanon," the LF leader stressed.