NA – Lebanese Forces Party Chief, Samir Geagea, said that “those who claim that they are going to Tuesday’s legislative session to avoid a vacuum in municipal and mayoral posts, especially the opposing party blocs and the Free Patriotic Movement, have false claims, given that Prime Minister Najib Mikati called for a government meeting on Tuesday with securing the necessary funds for conducting the elections on its agenda, and hence there is absolutely no reason to prevent their completion on time.”
Geagea added in a statement: “As for the administrative and logistical readiness, I will reiterate that the Interior Minister, who is mainly concerned with the municipal elections, has repeatedly affirmed his administrative and logistical readiness to hold them as long as the necessary budget is approved to complete them.”
He continued to indicate that the blocs of the opposing parties and the Free Patriotic Movement obstructed throughout the past period the course of the municipal elections under flimsy pretexts, until they were forced to fabricate a legislative session on the same day for one unified goal, which is to try to block the road towards securing the budget required for this entitlement.
Geagea asserted that “it has become known to all the Lebanese that the opposing parties’ blocs and the Free Patriotic Movement are obstructing the municipal and mayoral elections for one reason: their lack of confidence in the results of the electoral process,” adding that they have also shown no respect for constitutional deadlines and institutional regularity since their only basic concern is limited to their narrow and private interests.
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