Response from Al-Jumail to Berri: Your Proposal is an Admission of Intentional Constitutional Violation

The head of the Lebanese Kataeb Party, MP Sami Al-Jumail, responded to the Speaker of the Parliament, Nabih Berri. He wrote on X: "The proposal to hold consecutive sessions to elect a president, conditional on our participation in the dialogue, is an admission that you have intentionally violated the constitution and that all the arguments you were using are invalid. Implementing the constitution is not a tool for political extortion." He added: "The parliament is not your property; it belongs to the Lebanese people." Berri had called, on the 45th anniversary of the disappearance of Imam Musa Al-Sadr and his companions, for a dialogue to be held in the parliament followed by consecutive sessions to elect the country's future president, after a vacancy that has entered its eleventh month.