BEIRUT: The presidential election
crisis continues with no solution in sight, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea
said in remarks published Wednesday.
“Personally, I don’t see any way
out [of the crisis] now,” Geagea said in a chat with journalists Tuesday.
“Previously, Tehran was the one
that proposed French presidential envoy Jean-Francois Girault’s intervention
and after extensive contacts, he was told that Hezbollah has committed its
support for Gen. Michel Aoun, and they can’t do anything,” Samir Geagea said.
Nevertheless, Samir Geagea
emphasized his willingness to continue to support an anticipated dialogue with
his Christian arch foe Aoun even if talks did not yield any fruit.
“I insist to carry on dialogue
with Aoun no matter what,” he said.
Lebanon has been without a head
of state since May 2014, when former President Michel Sleiman left office at
the end of his six-year term. Disagreement over a successor has kept vacant the
state’s post which is reserved to Maronite Christians under Lebanon’s sectarian
political system.
The imminent talks between Geagea
and Aoun aim to achieve Christian rapprochement to end the presidential
election impasse.
Samir Geagea and Aoun will not
quit the presidential race despite the much-awaited dialogue between the two
rivals, Lebanese Forces spokesman Melhem Riachi has said.