Dr. Samir Geagea, head of the Executive Committee of the Lebanese Forces Party, confirmed in an interview with Al-Arabiya TV that “the Iranian team cannot continue to control the Lebanese parliament.”
And the head of the press office of the Lebanese Forces Party announced to Archyde.com in the early hours of Monday morning that the party won at least 20 seats in the Lebanese parliamentary elections, in what is considered an important victory for the Christian faction that strongly opposes the Shiite Hezbollah.
Antoinette Geagea said that this number could rise further and that with allies from other sects and religious parties, the Lebanese Front could form the “largest parliamentary bloc” in the 128-seat parliament.
The Lebanese Forces party was founded as an armed faction during the 15-year Lebanese civil war. He has repeatedly called on Iran-backed Hezbollah to give up its arsenal of weapons. The Lebanese Forces party won 15 seats in the 2018 elections.
This announced Lebanese Ministry of Interior On Sunday, the turnout in the elections reached 37.52%, half an hour before the polls closed in the first elections since the financial collapse and the explosion of the port. Vote counting has begun, with final results to be released on Monday.
In his interview with Al Arabiya, Geagea said, “The Lebanese elections went well despite some forces obstructing them.”
He stated that “the areas where Hezbollah members are present witnessed confrontations and clashes.”
The head of the Executive Committee of the Lebanese Forces Party indicated that “the percentage of participation in the elections has decreased in the regions of Hezbollah and the Amal Movement.”
Geagea stressed that “the Lebanese Forces party is at the forefront of the elections at the Christian level.”
“The Lebanese Forces Party has become the first Christian party in Lebanon,” he explained.