🇱🇧 Lebanese Forces party MP Nazih Matta on foreign interference in the presidency:

Since we need them, we have to accept the Americans, Qataris and Saudis giving their opinions on the matter.

🇱🇧 Independent pro-West MP Paula Yacoubian:

"There are very strong, unprecedented external pressure. International pressure has reached the point of either these names for president or you are free (abandoned).

It is being said directly, you are free, but there are repercussions for electing any name outside the names proposed."

🇱🇧 Independent MP of Palestinian origin Waddah Al-Sadiq on the presidency:

"Let us see who the Arab and international community and the Lebanese people have confidence in and we will go with this option."

🇱🇧 MP Ibrahim Mneimneh: Amos Hochstein, during the meeting, linked aid and support to Lebanon to who Lebanon will elect for president whether they consider him trustworthy or not.

The moderator comments: Is this link a bit humiliating?!

🇱🇧 Lebanese army commander becomes the president in Lebanon with an absolute majority.

The first vote was intentionally foiled by Hezbullah and Amal who voted with white papers, then during the two hours break met Aoun to get guarantees.

In the second round where it enough to win with 86 votes, he got about 99.

I'll cover the vote later today.

📹 Old video but denoscriptive

In the first round, the Hezbullah and Amal Movement duo chose to vote with a blank ballot, awaiting pledges from Army Commander Joseph Aoun and the Saudi, American and French envoys regarding:

- the management of the country in the next phase
- reconstruction issues
- the government
- the Ministry of Finance
- the defense strategy
- the name of the next Army Commander.

These are important, especially the name of the new army commander.

The world’s pressures did not succeed in forcing them to proceed without a deal and an agreement. Any other talk is just to obfuscate.

This decision in the first round was to tell everyone that there is no president without our approval.

Pledges are made, an agreement is reached, and then the Army Commander is elected President of the Republic.

🇱🇧 More details. Read both posts well. Hezbullah and Amal secured a checkmate

The international envoys imposed their candidate on everyone through pressure, but they negotiated with the Shia duo.

Four sessions were held with Saudi advisor Yazid bin Farhan, the last of which was yesterday morning with Ali Hassan Khalil, the deputy of Amal movement then today in the parliament two hours before the session.

Then a meeting took place between the duo and the president Aoun.

The gist of it was that you can talk to us, but you cannot bypass us.

In the end, with all the bravado and threats, the duo had the final say on the President of the Republic file.

The Ministry of Finance will remain with the duo, and Saudi Arabia has committed to the reconstruction file with guarantees.

🇱🇧 From the consultations between a number of MPs from the Amal-Hezbullah duo before the second round of the presidential election session

Everyone wants to claim a victory in this election, great, let everyone be satisfied.

The only difference some were forced to vote for him, like the majority of the Lebanese parties, while some struck a deal and did what is best for Lebanese internally.

FPM, Hezbullah, and Amal, Franjieh, the actual patriots and actual nationalists.

🇱🇧 Head of the Loyalty to the Resistance bloc, Muhammad Raad:

Delaying our vote for His Excellency the President is to send a message that just as we are protectors of sovereignty, we are also protectors of national accord.

🇱🇧 The "so-called nationalist" George Ghanem to Sar Al Waqt:

"The Lebanese love and demand foreign intervention since the time of the Mutasarrifate and Greater Lebanon until today"

🇱🇧 Head of the Kataeb party MP Sami Gemayel:

"I proved that no one influenced me. I sat with the Saudi and the American and they said clearly: "Either a president comes who we trust and who will protect you from Iran and Israel, or you shouldn't rely on us.'"

🇱🇧l🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince MBS congratulate Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on his election today

Let's be clear on one thing lol, to those who claim Aoun had enough to win without the Shia.

1- He didn't secure enough votes in the first round, where he needed 86.

2- It was impossible to secure 86

3- He needed the second round and all the Shia MPs, including the head of the parliament left to do "consultations" with him

4- Aoun was dressed and ready to move his bags to the Presidential Palace. Had he not agree on giving guarantees and safety to Hezbullah and Amal, they wouldn't have came back to the parliament.

There wouldn't have been a second vote. That's how you lift the parliament session, and that's legal and constitutional.

So if there is no enough MPs to X threshold or absence of Parliament speaker. It's not cope, they had the power snd ability to sabotage the vote.

It was settled by joining the general consensus and getting guarantees, that Aoun will either have to live up to when he forms the government to betray and succumb to external pressure.

Get what I mean? And again, let them celebrate, they already announced Hezullah's funeral weeks ago... whoever wants to be joyful lol

What's important is what happens, and how Aoun doesn't fight with the state against Hezbullah and cooperates for the wellbeing of Lebanon and its sovereignty

🇱🇧 Rough summary of Aoun's speech after the vote: (important points)

- Being president is a big honor for me
- My presidency comes during a shift in the Middle east when alliances collapsed and Regimes fell and borders changed but Lebanon stayed
- Lebanon stayed despite the wars and aggression and explosions and the failure to handle the crisises
- All sects are Lebanese and part of Lebanon
- No matter how we fight, we are always together
- We are in a political crisis that requires us to work to protect our borders and economy, etc etc
- Today starts a new phase in Lebanon where I vow to serve Lebanon to uphold the national consensus.
- No mafia, no money laundry, no illegal security zones, or drug trafficking, or interference in judiciary or protection of the corrupt
- I will work with the new gov to secure the independence of the judiciary
- I promise to begin forming a government soon and start negotiating with the parliament
- I will play my role as the commander of the armed forces to stress that the state exclusively has the right to bare arms (here only Hezb and Amal MPs didn't applaud, other did for a long time)
- We will invest in the army to ensure the border is preserved in south Lebanon and finalized in the east with Syria
- We will get an army that will fight smuggling and terrorists
-  We will get an army that will counter the Israeli violations
- Will ensure that the security forces are active
- We will discuss the national defense strategy to protect against the enemies including Israel and I stress (twice) that the government is solely responsible for countering Israel
- I promise to rebuild what the Israeli army has destroyed in Dahyeh, Beqaa, and south Lebanon
- I salute the martyrs (Hezbullah) whose soles are our spirit of steadfast and that the prisoners now on Israel are our responsibility and we owe them freedom
- I will refuse giving Palestinians Lebanese citizenship, to preserve their right to go home based on the two-state solution that Lebanon accepted in 2001 based on the Arab Peace attempt
- I promise to make good relationship with the Arab states and gulf.
- We will refuse any attempts to sabotage and interfere with the Arab states, and we will stay neutral about any Arab conflict.
- We will not tolerate exporting anything to these Arabs but our produce
- We will talk with Syria to resolve the pending conflicts to preserve sovereignty and stop snuggling and look for those missing during the civil war (1975-1990)
- We will have mutual cooperation with the world

🇱🇧l🇮🇱 Back to south Lebanon, for the second day in a row the Israeli moved large forces from Maroun al-Ras towards the outskirts of Bint Jbeil to raid homes and search.

Tanks and soldiers are seen in a dozen photo here: https://news.1rj.ru/str/alichoeib1970/12985

🇮🇱l🇱🇧 Additionally today, the Israeli army attacked a vehicle in south Lebanon claiming it was carrying weapons being moved out a location previously associated with Hezbullah (but they somehow remarkably forgot to attack during the war)

No secondary explosions or fire reported.

This is the second such attack recently, and in both statements they announced targeting the vehicle but not the people around and in it.

Again lol, I'm not saying Aoun was Hezbullah and Amal's victory lol. He isn't.

Lebanese army officers are usually arrogant ennoscriptd officers, he isn't anyone's pawn.

He's the best option under the worst conditions, and electing him was with some conditions and benefits.

He isn't Gaegae who was going to fight and drown Lebanon in chaos, he isn't the Jihad Azour, he isn't etc etc. He's a man that Hezbullah always had back channels with. He is someone they can sit with unlike others.

And no, Lebanon wasn't going to risk electing a president without the Shia, because Lebanon is based on this type of consensus of not sidelining a sect.

Lebanon has no majority that can win anything, and everyone has the ability to sabotage. Its just how it is.

Aoun can say whatever he wants, can do whatever he wants, as long as he doesn't put the state against Hezbullah, turn a blind eye, and help safeguard Lebanon',s sovereignty from the perspective of the state by defending Lebanon's rights its all good.

We have 6 years to see, and our first indictor is the next government. What portfolios will he give to? And what will be the government message which always had the phrase "Lebanese have the right to resist"

The liars and hypocrites are the ones who never wanted Aoun and only accepted under foreign pressure.

🇱🇧l🇮🇱 Similar to some Lebanese, they think Aoun's win will be the last nail in Hezbullah's coffin

After Israeli media, now the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs said:

"I congratulate Lebanon on electing a new president after a prolonged political crisis. I hope that the election will contribute to strengthening stability, a better future for Lebanon and its residents, and good neighborliness."

https://x.com/gidonsaar/status/1877337265103388685

🇱🇧 It's easy to claim things, its easy to say things. But you'll see how things happen and progress.

I'm genuinely glad seeing everyone claiming Hezbullah done for, fighting Hezbullah through Israel, and attacking it daily in the most vulgar way.

Will anyone ever hold them accountable for their false claims and reading of the whole situation? From during the war when they celebrated our murder to after it, never had some Lebanese been so open to showing joy about Israeli attacks on Lebanese.

I want to see their joy fade in the months and years to come, and how Hezbullah will shine again like the bright sun.

Hezbullah will never fall and inshallah they will never fail.

🇱🇧 Independent MPs today in a tweet on X:

"We elected a president
A new beginning for Lebanon
We got rid of the dominance of weapons and left the axis"

Will anyone ever hold them accountable for the lies and delusions? When was Lebanon part of an axis as a whole? What dominance of weapons?