The party said, in a statement, that Lebanon “misses its great role in preserving national unity and coexistence, and in confronting internal strife and external conspiracies,” hoping that “the Lebanese will be inspired by the biography of the late great and his unitary and constructive positions in dealing with major issues that afflict the country.”
He also considered that “faithfulness to his pure blood is to preserve his national line and political legacy and to punish the criminal killers who committed this heinous and condemned crime, no matter how long it takes.”
The head of the “Dignity Movement”, Faisal Karami, had held a press conference, in his home in Tripoli, in which he told Geagea: “No money, no matter how much I owned from it, nor castles and palaces in or not, nor the number of MPs whose seats I bought with money, lies and incitement, nor The pardon issued by the House of Representatives, and nothing under this heaven can grant you innocence and take away the status of a murderer and a criminal.”
Karami stressed that Tripoli “was never a headquarters or a corridor for clients with projects and destructive schemes for Lebanon, and today also I assure you that Tripoli will not be a headquarters or corridor for these, even if they have the rank of representatives.”
Karami also pointed out that “during the electoral competition, he was subjected to moral assassinations on all levels,” concluding by saying: “Tripoli is the bride of your Arabism, so why did you bring all the mobs of the night into her room?”
The candidate of the forces in Tripoli, Elias Khoury, had won the Maronite seat, through his alliance with Major General Ashraf Rifi, thus opening the city’s door for the forces, after it was closed in their face.