“Lebanese Forces” Party Chief Samir Geagea affirmed that “what we are witnessing in Lebanon at the hands of an authoritarian composition that is empowered with illegal weapons, violates the most basic contents of human dignity and blocks all prospects for natural, legitimate change before the Lebanese.”

“This constitutes an assassination of the Lebanon of Charles Malek and a stabbing of his human self, which calls for searching for a new formula that will restore Lebanon to its constants,’ Geagea underlined.

His words came during a forum entitled, “Charles Malek, the Mentor, the Philosopher and the Believer, Space for Hope and Reflection in this Hustling World”, organized by the LF Legal Professions Department marking the anniversary of Malek’s birth.

Geagea regretted “what we are witnessing in Lebanon at the hands of a corrupt, tyrannical, and empowered authoritarian structure with illegitimate weapons, impersonating legitimacy and constitutionalism, in terms of its blatant and persistent breach of the most basic contents of human dignity, of decent living and a dignified existence, and its blocking of all horizons of natural, legitimate change for the Lebanese from within, politically and constitutionally, and even disrupting the conduct of presidential elections within their constitutional dates, leading to Lebanon being expelled from the United Nations General Assembly and declaring it a failed and fallen state.”

He continued to stress that “this prompts us, and all free Lebanese, to search for a new formula that will restore Lebanon to the constants of Charles Malek, rid us of everything that strengthens and fuels sectarian feelings and fanaticism, and restores consideration for the human being in Lebanon as having the first value in existence, as Charles Malek deemed…”

Source: National News Agency