Kataeb Party’s Secretary General, Serge Dagher, highlighted the three levels of disagreement with Hezbollah, being political, security-military, and, most crucially, cultural, as he emphasized that the party is indoctrinating a generation with the teachings of Wilayat al-Faqih, which advocates a guardianship-based political system, thus shaping society in a way that does not align with the Lebanese identity.

“Hezbollah can claim it wants to do "this and that," but it cannot impose anything on us. We want to live our lives freely,” Dagher said in an interview on the Tafasil YouTube channel, criticizing Hezbollah MP Mohammad Raad for trying to suppress people who enjoy nightlife.

“The conflict in Lebanon is ideological, not sectarian. This ideology does not align with Lebanon.”

Dagher emphasized that since its inception, the Kataeb Party has been defending the Lebanese entity, noting that it was a resistance movement, not a militia, that was forced to take up arms in 1975 to defend Lebanon.

"Our conflict wasn't with Muslims," Dagher said. "When the war ended, we handed our weapons to the Lebanese state and raised our children to love only Lebanon.”

Dagher expressed a desire to live with Shiites on the basis of equality, emphasizing the importance of democracy.

The Kataeb official questioned the Parliament’s failure to convene over the last nine months to discuss the ongoing conflict on Lebanon’s southern border, slamming Hezbollah for making unilateral decisions and failing to embrace democracy.

“Hezbollah decides what it wants, and if we disagree, we are branded as traitors,” he said.

Dagher also criticized Hezbollah's arrogant approach regarding the presidential election, saying it is clinging to the candidature of Sleiman Frangieh while dismissing other candidates like Michel Moawad and Jihad Azour as unserious.

He also blasted Hezbollah for waging a war on Lebanon’s southern border to relieve pressure on Gaza, leading to further destruction in Lebanon while Gaza was still heavily bombarded.

Dagher blamed Hezbollah for the ongoing presidential election deadlock, arguing that Lebanon cannot afford this lingering political crisis.

He questioned the necessity of Speaker Nabih Berri’s proposed dialogue before elections, arguing that elections are a constitutional requirement that should not be bound to any preconditions.

“President Berri is not an arbitrator but a supporter of Frangieh and won't accept any alternative,” he noted.

"We do not want to take part in Berri's dialogue because we do not want to establish a constitutional precedent of holding a dialogue before every election,” he stressed.