March 14 Urges Support for State Project to 'Preserve Stability'

The March 14 General Secretariat reiterated the keenness to preserve Lebanon's stability and the necessity not to turn the nation to an arena to settle accounts of major events taking place around us in the region.

“Out of our keenness to preserve stability we stress the need not to turn Lebanon to a weak spot and a place to settle accounts of serious events,” the Secretariat said in a statement issued on Sunday.

“The Secretariat is viewing with concern the events that are taking place around us and dragging the region to further tension, sectarian and political disputes,” it added.

“We call on all politicians and national figures to come together and support the project of the state by electing a new president. We urge then to preserve the civil, military and security institutions because the state is the only guarantor for civil peace and coexistence,” the statement concluded.

Lebanon has been without a president since the term of President Michel Suleiman ended in May 2014.

Conflicts between the rival March 8 and March 14 camps thwarted all efforts to elect a successor.