Member of the March 14 General Secretariat Samir Franjieh said in an interview published on Thursday that “the second list of names of people indicted by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) probe into the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri will instigate a severe crisis in the [Hezbollah-backed] cabinet… and will lead to its fall.”
Franjieh told Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anbaa that “the government theatrically carried out the first list of arrest warrants because it was sure that the indicted people will not be found.” However, he added that the government will not be able to use the excuse that they were not able to find the people on the second list of names because they are in well-known locations.
Franjieh added that the government has two choices “that will both lead to its [fall].”
“Either it commits to Hezbollah’s decision, confronts the international community and becomes isolated, or it carries out the arrest warrants and confronts Hezbollah,” he added.
The UN-backed STL indicted four members of Hezbollah in connection to Rafik Hariri’s murder, but the Shia group ruled out their arrest.
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