The Beautiful: Any Planned Session to Elect an 8 March Candidate Will Not Secure a Quorum

Kataeb Party leader MP Sami Gemayel emphasized that any parliamentary session planned to elect a candidate from the 8 March team will not secure a quorum. He pointed out that it is not necessary to resort to a stalemate because the other team has not yet reached the 65 majority for Sleiman Frangieh; otherwise, House Speaker Nabih Berri would have called for a session. In an interview on MTV on Saturday, he noted that "those who have declared they will not secure a quorum have not reached a third." He considered that "Berri decided to take the battle upon himself to fight it, and he is no longer the president of the council; he opens the council when it suits the team he represents and acts with others based on the interests of his political group." Gemayel highlighted the need to "follow the voting process closely," stressing that "any planned session to elect an 8 March candidate will not secure a quorum." Regarding an Arab or Saudi veto on Sleiman Frangieh, he stated: "The main issue is Lebanese; part of the Lebanese does not have a veto on Frangieh but on the line he represents." On the proposition of naming a president from the 8 March team in exchange for a prime minister acceptable to Arabs and the West, he said: "We rejected it outright because it is illogical. This is then a proposal from Hezbollah's team, and we ask, what about the Speaker of the House? Is it 'etiquette' for Hezbollah and the resistance, and no one is allowed to talk about it?"