Head of FPM Movement Gebran Bassil launched on Tuesday a major political attack on the Lebanese Forces Chief Samir Geagea, saying that the latter is trying to make people forget that he was a militia warlord who was involved in destroying Lebanon.

In a press conference which followed a meeting for the FPM’s political council, MP Bassil also responded to the caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati, who had indicated that his government would assume the constitutional responsibilities of the president after the end of his term.

“We will not recognize the legitimacy of the caretaker government after the end of the president’s term and we will consider it to be usurping power and illegitimate on the parliamentary, constitutional, National Pact and popular levels, even if the entire world agrees to support it against us,” the FPM chief cautioned.

“In the aftermath of vacuum, every minister in the government would be a ‘president’,” Bassil noted, “You will find several ‘Michel Aouns’ in the government,” he added.

It is worth noting that the mandate of President Michel Aoun ends on October 31, 2022. According to the Lebanese constitution, during the last two months of the presidential mandate, the parliament must convene, upon the House Speaker’s call, in order to elect a new president.

Source: Al-Manar English Website