Lebanese political parties long blocked the election of a president, on top of them Hezbollah and its allies, the secretary general of Lebanon’s political party The National Bloc Michel Helou says.
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00:00I mean on this channel these last few months we've been closely covering events in Syria
00:04and the downfall of Bashar al-Assad that no one saw coming. We saw the demise of Hassan Nasrallah
00:10and the degradation of Hezbollah. Would we have got to this point that we're at today where there
00:18is now a president and it looks like Lebanon is sort of going to stage something of a comeback
00:24by the looks of things, everyone's optimistic. Would we've got to that point if those other
00:29events hadn't taken place? Unfortunately not and this is a huge issue. I mean the reality is that
00:37Lebanese political parties have been blocking the election of president
00:43on top of them Hezbollah and their allies. So had Hezbollah agreed earlier on to elect a president
00:50to attend the electoral sessions we would have been able to avoid all that.