LF Leader Samir Geagea: Any government formed by President Sleiman, PM-Designate Salam is "legitimate"

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said that any government formed by President Michel Sleiman and Prime Minister-Designate Tammam Salam would be a legitimate government.

He also noted that the Lebanese people are "fed up with the political disputes" among the country's politicians.

Geagea made his comments in a press conference held in Maarab Friday where he said that the government is not a "representative council" for the Lebanese factions but is in fact an executive power.

He also accused the opposing political groups of forming a government that serves their own interests, noting that the mentioned groups aim at implementing their "military projects and not building a Lebanese state," he said in reference to Hezbollah.

Geagea reiterated his proposal to form a government that does not include representatives of either March 14 or March 8, calling on President Sleiman and PM-Designate Salam to assume their "constitutional responsibilities" and form a government.

Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced the cabinet's resignation on Friday March 22, after talks deadlocked over the extension of Internal Security Forces chief Major General Ashraf Riff's mandate and the formation of an Election Supervisory Committee.

On the 6th of April, 2013, Tammam Salam, a Lebanese politician who served in the government of Lebanon as minister of culture from 2008 to 2009, was tasked with forming a new government.