I read carefully Hakim’s speech yesterday and the papers’ interpretations today and i must say Hakim’s worries are right on the money, because no other Christian side except the Patriarch is understanding the real threats of not having a new president in two months.

The threat is from both parties, yes both and not just the 8th of March team.
The 8th of March wants to drag the country into a chaos, and Hezbollah fooled Aoun into joining them and in return support him for presidency, knowing the other team will never accept him. They have shown on several occasions that they do not want this country to settle and Hakim expressed it properly by giving the Nahr el Bared example and Gebran Tueni assassination.

ولو فرضنا ان حكومة الاتفاق الوطني كانت قائمة عندما بدأت الاحداث مع “فتح الاسلام” ، فإن موقف السيد حسن نصرالله في طريقة مواجهة هذه الظاهرة كانت واضحة برفضه دخول الجيش الى مخيم نهر البارد، مما يعني ان حكومة الوفاق الوطني لما كانت تمكنت من اتخاذ اي قرار في مواجهة “فتح الاسلام” مشيدا بالدور الذي اضطلعت به الحكومة الحالية التي اتخذت قرارا حاسما وشجاعا وجريئا في هذا الاطا

As for the 14th of March, they gave the Patriarch the authority to choose a new president, but they are the ones who will be voting, and they do know how divided the Christians are, and they do know some Christian sides wont even listen to the Patriarch.
We need the government and Hariri & Jumblatt to give their priority to having a new STRONG president, the same way they have been fighting for the tribunal for two years now … we dont want compromises that will lead us to having a weak president and the LF as the biggest loser.

The number of seats is not the issue here, Hakim should not care whether Aoun gets more seats in a new government or not, as long as we resolve the presidential issue here, after all Aoun did get more votes and he deserves a bigger share if the government is to be representative of all ..

March 14 should not accept any solution that might threaten the government and paralyze it, since it is the only institution still operational and as Geagea said “the opposition in the past two years had adopted what he described as “constitutional piracy.”" and will continue to do so.

Hezbollah felt obliged to get into politics after the Syrians were out to make sure it can still operate freely in its own mini-Iranian Republic while the country is in chaos, and they managed to paralyze the parliament first and then put a serious threat on the presidential elections cause of Aoun’s foolishness and short-sightness.

What worries me most now are the compromises being proposed by KSA & France to form a national unity government .. and that is unacceptable in any form, and Hakim has every right to ask for a new president first and demarcation of the borders ..

The LF must be the one making the deals and compromises here, and not Hariri nor Jumblatt, and i hope this is a clear message to both of them … The presidency is for Lebanon’s sake, as much as the tribunal is, and the same way the LF have supported the tribunal with all its powers, our allies must do the same.

I have warned earlier about the dangers of not having presidential elections and i repeat it, and by presidential elections, i mean voting for a strong competent president agreed on by The Patriarch and the Christians of both sides ( except for Aoun and his few FPM mps who cannot see anyone but God Aoun as president).

Where does the LF stand ?

In The most critical and sensitive position, and the only way out is imposing yourself and offering initiatives and refusing ALL sorts of compromises on our expense.