Aoun, Geagea may meet soon for presidential talks: MPs

BEIRUT: The Lebanese Forces and the Free Patriotic Movement are in continuous dialogue, and a session joining the two parties’ chiefs is expected to take place soon, lawmakers from both parties announced Sunday.

“There is nonstop communication and dialogue with the [Lebanese] Forces, and this is expected to lead to more dialogue,” Reform and Change Bloc MP Ibrahim Kanaan said in a TV interview Sunday morning. “We will attempt to agree on a common vision despite the healthy democratic competition between us.”

Lebanese Forces MP Antoine Zahra confirmed Kanaan’s comments in an interview with local radio sation Voice of Lebanon 93.3.

“The meeting between [FPM chief] Gen. Michel Aoun and [LF head] Dr. Samir Geagea might happen at any moment,” he said.

Zahra stressed that he opposed a merely symbolic dialogue between the FPM and the LF, and that the dialogue should only be held with the purpose of imrpoving ties.

“We refuse that the dialogue between the Lebanese Forces and the Free Patriotic Movement be for the sake of wasting time and taking pictures,” he said, adding that Aoun’s insistence on reaching the presidential post and his rejection of any other candidates has been hampering the dialogue.

Lebanon has been without head of state since May 25, when former president Michel Sleiman left office at the end of his term.

Aoun and Geagea are March 8 and March 14’s respective presidential candidates, but neither of them have enough parliamentary support to be elected.

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