The Kataeb Party’s Political Bureau held its weekly meeting chaired by Kataeb Leader MP Samy Gemayel. After the meeting, the following statement was issued:

1- The Kataeb Political Bureau voiced its refusal over the provocative manner in which the Parliament Speaker is treating the representatives of the Lebanese people with, considering that he is no longer playing his role but rather he is disrupting the presidential elections for the benefit of his political party and he is leading a public election campaign in favor of his presidential candiate.

2- It also refuses to succumb to the Hezbollah’s equation of depriving the country of president and an executive authority and holding it as hostage until the election of a president who protects its illegal weapons.

The Kataeb Party stressed that Hezbollah’s plan which was implemented in 2016 to elect its presidential candidate led to the country’s total collapse, affirming that this scene will not be repeated.

The Kataeb Political Bureau pointed out that Lebanon needs a rescue and sovereign president who does not cover illegal weapons and is able to protect the people from any possible danger, saying that the opposition will exert its utmost efforts to prevent the logic that has prevailed in the country in the past 6 years.

3- The Kataeb Party praised the role of the Lebanese army that has proven the courage of its members, its keeness to protect the Lebanese territories, saying that the Lebanese sovereignty is safe in the hands of the legitimate armed forces and under international cover from the United Nations.

4- It also blamed the financial system for the adoption of a random financial policy  through raising the customs dollar to LBP 45,000 under the pretext of securing imports to cover public sector salaries, considering that this step would lead to the exacerbation of the collapse as law-abiding companies will refrain from paying their obligations leading to the  reduction of treasury revenues.