Kataeb Leader Samy Gemayel said that "the threat is always present; its intensity sometimes diminishes and at other times escalates".

"We aspire to live in a country where there is a sovereign state, where citizens are equal in rights and duties. We desire a stable nation where freedom prevails, living under the umbrella of law and constitution," Gemayel said in an interview with LBCI.

He considered that the primary prerequisite for the establishment of a state is to have defined borders and an authority that monopolizes the use of force before tackling other issues.

"The basic components of the country do not exist, and our problem is primarily with Hezbollah. It must decide whether it wants to be a partner or continue with the logic of hegemony and unilateral decision-making," he emphasized.

"We reject the logic of violence and war. The fundamental problem is that Hezbollah adopts an exclusionary approach toward anyone who disagrees with its politics," he added.

"When Al-Manar TV and Al-Akhbar newspaper claim responsibility for the campaign launched against me, does that automatically implicate Israeli involvement?" he asked.

"The coup process in the country is cumulative and began with the election of Michel Aoun, putting the representatives before the choice of surrender or presidential vacuum. Hezbollah operates with a coup-like mentality in all its actions," he indicated.

"Since May 7th, the Free Patriotic Movement has also participated in the coup by aligning itself with Hezbollah's coup," he affirmed.

"When the Free Patriotic Movement aligns itself with Hezbollah's policies and when Mikati accepts to be the Prime Minister of Hezbollah's government, this signifies compliance with the coup," he went on saying.

"When Mikati says that he does not have a say in what happens in the south, this means accepting the conditions of the coup and that he does not bear the primary constitutional responsibility in the absence of president," he noted.

"In my estimation, there is no war in Lebanon on a large scale, and its probability is small, as both parties have an interest in reaching an agreement, and this is one of the tasks of Amos Hochstein," he stated.

"We neither reject nor refuse partnership, but we reject the imposition of Hezbollah's logic on all Lebanese citizens," he indicated.

"If there is a serious will of Hezbollah to open a new page, there must be a national conference for frankness and purification of memory based on the rules of recognition of the other, freedom and equality. If Hezbollah wants to develop the system currently based on a Christian-Sunni duality, the decision must be liberalized first and we must all be under the law," he said.

"We must distinguish between Hezbollah's role in the south and its coup-like political behavior. On October 8th, it announced the opening of a supportive front to alleviate pressure on Gaza, thereby initiating the opening of the front rather than responding to aggression," Gemayel pointed out.

"Has Hezbollah benefited Gaza? Has anyone observed a decrease in the scenes of destruction in Gaza since Hezbollah entered the war? If the situation hasn't improved, it means Hezbollah's involvement in the war hasn't helped," he affirmed.

"The problem is that Hezbollah continues to address us with hypothetical scenarios, just as when it claimed that fighting ISIS in Syria prevented that organization from reaching Jounieh," he added.

"We believe that no party should possess weapons, and militias should hand over their arms to the state," he stressed.

"In exchange for May 25th, there should be April 26th, a day to commemorate the martyrs of the resistance and all martyrs," Gemayel noted.

"As soon as a person dies on the soil of Lebanon in a strange way, he is a martyr, and I am not ready to live with a party that cannot recognize our martyrs. Every human being who was martyred and fought in defense with a strange face inside is a martyr, even though I do not agree with the ideology and how we were dragged into war, which is a religious logic," he explained.