The Lebanese Kataeb Party stated in a release following a meeting led by party leader MP Sami Gemayel, that "Lebanon is quickly moving towards a total vacuum in the financial, military, security, judicial, and administrative state institutions, which threatens to reach a stage of complete state decay and total collapse into the hands of Hezbollah." The party accused Hezbollah of seeking to control the country through a policy of sequential site obstruction, altering equations, and imposing its presidential candidate, undermining all the balances that Lebanon has relied upon.
The statement warned of "the dangers of continuing down this path, which places us before unconstitutional options ranging from the necessity of legislation in a parliament that has effectively transformed into an electoral body, to necessary appointments in a government that has no right to convene, and unconventional methods of selecting a president through dialogue, selecting a prime minister before being named by MPs, and determining the ministerial statement before forming the government, all of which blatantly violate standard procedures and rules."
The Kataeb Party called for "an immediate invitation to elect a president in accordance with the constitutional provisions and to restore Lebanon to democratic procedures, which is the only way to release the state and its institutions and emerge from the ongoing crises that threaten to slide into a dark phase of complete collapse."
Furthermore, the party stated that "what remains of the state is resigning from its responsibilities in the Shebaa Farms issue, handing it over to Hezbollah to handle the land demarcation, similar to what happened in the maritime demarcation which led to the abandonment of many rights for the sake of interests." The Kataeb Party also rejected the idea of allowing "Hezbollah" or any unofficial party, or one without legal or constitutional authority, to decide the fate of any part of Lebanese territory, affirming that the Lebanese people are united in their insistence on the state being the sole representative of their rights.
