On Wednesday evening, the leader of the Lebanese Forces party, Samir Geagea, received the French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian, stating that his party is open to a third candidate, “unlike the Resistance Axis.”
“The Resistance Axis wants to know the president before the election session, which is unacceptable,” Geagea stated after the meeting.
“Le Drian said that his meeting with (Speaker of Parliament) Nabih Berri was positive, so let him go ahead and call for a session,” Geagea added.
He concluded, “We will not accept granting the Speaker of the Parliament powers that he does not have, nor having every deadline pass through him by default. We are the first to defend the powers of the second presidency as permitted by the constitution and the law.”
Le Drian was accompanied by the French ambassador Herve Magro and the accompanying delegation, in the presence of MP George Okais, member of the executive committee Joseph Jbeily, head of the foreign relations department Richard Kouyoumjian, and department member Tony Darwish.
