Geagea Optimistic About Poll Results Despite Release of 4 Generals
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said Thursday that the release of the four generals will reflect positively on the upcoming parliamentary elections.
"This step will reflect positively on the results of the parliamentary elections (and will come) in favor of the March 14 forces," Geagea stressed during a press conference in Merab.
He described the release of the officers as an "achievement if it”s true that there is no evidence" of their involvement in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri”s murder.
"There is no political identity in justice," Geagea stressed, adding that Wednesday”s first ruling to release the four officers is proof that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon is not politicized.
Geagea accused the March 8 forces of trying to cripple the formation of the tribunal in all its stages.
He also criticized those who are accusing Lebanese authorities of being responsible for the four generals” arrest, saying former chief U.N. investigator Detlev Mehlis is the one who ordered their detention and not the March 14 forces.
"Our agenda was never and will never be based on the foundation that the four generals are the ones who carried out the assassination. Our cause is based on state-building," the LF leader stressed.
On the elections, Geagea said: "The voters should know where their wrong votes will lead to."