Sayyed Nasrallah calls for transparent Presidential Polls

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered a speech through a large screen Sunday marking the Martyr's Day in Beirut's southern suburb.Sayyed Nasrallah said that Israel's recent military training maneuvers near the Lebanese border were intended to prepare for a new war on Lebanon, adding that Hezbollah's own drills in southern Lebanon were in direct response to the Israeli exercises, intended to send out ''a clear message'' to the Israeli leadership that Hezbollah was ready to fight."The (Israeli) enemy has been conducting military maneuvers for months. The latest maneuvers occurred a few weeks ago near the Lebanese border in which 50,000 Israeli officers and soldiers participated," Sayyed Nasrallah said. "These maneuvers are to prepare for an attack on Lebanon," he said."I tell the (Israeli) enemy that these maneuvers were real, serious and big. I am not going to give details. There is a great deal of readiness (by Hezbollah) which the enemy must understand," his eminence said in his speech Sunday."These maneuvers were intended to send out a clear message to the world which is besieging us and to this enemy that that the resistance in Lebanon possesses determination, men and the necessary and sufficient weapons to defend Lebanon," Sayyed Nasrallah said drawing cheers from the crowd. Without elaborating, he added, "The resistance is ready to make a victory for Lebanon that will change the region's face."He also slammed the unconstitutional government for its inaction against the Israeli hostile moves and has not even condemned the action. "They don't consider Israel as the nation's foe and even some of them are pleased with it because Israel wants to eradicate Hezbollah," Sayyed Nasrallah said.Sayyed Nasrallah also promised that no power could force the resistance to give up its arms. "If the whole world came and tried, it wouldn't be capable of implementing the clause concerning the disarmament of the resistance in [UN Security Council] Resolution 1559," he told the crowd.Concerning the presidential poll in Lebanon, Hezbollah's Secretary General thanked Lahoud for supporting the resistance and called on him to step in if a consensus were not reached."We appeal to President Emile Lahoud to do what his conscience and national responsibility stipulates and take a step or a national salvation initiative to stop the country from [sliding into] a vacuum." Addressing Lahoud, Sayyed Nasrallah said, "Do not allow the country to fall into the hands of thieves and murderers."Sayyed Nasrallah also warned that the Lebanese national opposition would "never" accept a new president elected by simple majority and without a two-thirds quorum of legislators, adding that if a consensus president could not be agreed upon in the upcoming days, then the country should hold early parliamentary elections. "Let us hold early, transparent parliamentary elections where the true majority gets to elect the new president," he said.He also turned his attention to reports of potential problems brewing in Beirut's Palestinian refugee camps - Burj al-Barajneh, Sabra and Shatila - located in Beirut's southern suburbs."There will be no war between the camps and their neighbors," he said, calling on the Palestinians to act responsibly and not allow "strife to infiltrate the camps."Hezbollah Secretary General also warned against the recent move to privatize the cellular industry, a move long opposed by the national opposition with accusations that the tender would be rigged to favor bidders close to the unconstitutional government."Just you wait and see who buys it up," Nasrallah said, echoing the concerns of many observers who believe powerful politicians will steer the deal toward their cronies and/or relatives.

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