The head of the Lebanese Phalange Party, Representative Sami Gemayel, placed restoring sovereignty and confining arms to the state at the top of the priorities, stressing that Lebanon is facing a critical stage that cannot tolerate the distraction of efforts, and that the transition to rebuilding the state cannot actually begin before ending weapons outside its framework and extending its authority over the entire Lebanese territory.
Gemayel said that the Phalange will remain a “watchful eye” on this path and a “shield of legitimacy” as long as the authority is committed to restoring sovereignty, warning that the party will return to a position of confrontation if the authority returns to being lenient with illegal weapons or external pressures.
He stressed that the goal of the Phalange is not more blood and destruction, but rather to bring Lebanon to safety and secure a better future for its children and youth.
Gemayel’s words came during the annual dinner held by the Batroun Phalange region, in the presence of MP Adeeb Abdel Masih, the party’s deputy presidents Michel Khoury and Nabil Hakim, the deputy secretaries-general Bashir Murad and Ralph Sion, the head of the Foreign Relations Authority Marwan Abdullah, the representative of MP Ghiath Yazbek Joe Feghali, Majd Harb, the mayor of Batroun Roger Toubia, and the head of the Batroun Municipalities Union Roger Yazbek, along with a number of presidents. The municipalities, the president of the Association of Mukhtars and Mukhtars, members of the Political Bureau and the Phalangist Central Council, the Lady of Ilij Association, members of the Executive Committee in the Batroun Region, heads of departments, and a crowd of Phalangists.
Gemayel explained that the Phalange’s support for the President of the Republic does not come merely because he is President of the Republic, but rather is linked to the path taken by the authority, considering that the Lebanese legitimacy is negotiating today with the United States and is working to restore sovereignty and independence, and it is the party’s duty to stand by it at this stage, even with observations on some details.
He pointed out that the Brigades’ 90-year experience taught them to distinguish between the essence and the details, considering that the essence today is to restore the sovereignty of the state and completely disarm it outside its framework, which is the path to which the Presidency of the Republic, the Prime Minister and the Government have committed, while the Brigades have the responsibility to keep pace with it and ensure its full implementation.
He believed that reaching Lebanon, where the Lebanese want to live in freedom and dignity, passes through two stages: the first is restoring full sovereignty, ending every weapon outside the framework of legitimacy, extending state authority over the entire territory and restoring free national decision-making, and the second is rebuilding the state on new foundations, which is a task that cannot begin before the first stage is resolved.
Gemayel considered that Lebanon had not succeeded during the past decades in managing its pluralism properly, which led to divisions and repeated wars, stressing the necessity of building a state in which the Christian and the Muslim, the Druze and the Shiite and the Sunni, feel that the state alone is the guarantee and the law is the reference, and that no one should fear for his future from his partner in the homeland.
He stressed that the Lebanese are tired of living in existential concerns, calling for Lebanon to return to a final homeland for its people, not a temporary station awaiting departure. He added that the problem is not with the Lebanese who succeed abroad, but rather with the country that did not provide him with the environment that would allow him to succeed in his country.
He called for a transition from a Lebanon preoccupied with how to avoid a new war, to a Lebanon that talks about the metro, the tram, public transportation, universities, the digital economy, technology companies, and artificial intelligence.
Gemayel stressed that the Phalange works with everyone who believes in the state, sovereignty, and free Lebanese decision-making, revealing continuous communication, coordination, and meetings with various sovereign forces and figures away from the media and cameras, because the goal, according to him, is to achieve results, not images or political gains.
He stressed the need not to allow sovereign powers to be drawn into side battles that distract efforts from the main priority, considering that this stage requires the broadest possible national front for the success of the state project.
