Kataeb Lawmaker Elias Hankach considered that summoning the families of the Beirut blast victims for questioning as a shameful matter, blaming officials for evading their responsibilities.

“No trust in the Lebanese judiciary as it is imposing its authority on innocent people. It must prove that it applies the law firmly and without discretion,” Hankach said in an interview with Tele Liban.

“How can Lebanese Officials have clear conscience while disrupting the country?” He wondered.

In response to a question about the demand for an international investigation, he said: "When you lose confidence in the Lebanese judiciary, it is natural to resort to an international one whether it is in the issue of the Beirut port crime or the issue of impoverishing the Lebanese intentionally.”

Hankach stressed the importance of an international judiciary in a bid to urge the Lebanese one to do its work and take action and to give a glimmer of hope that truth behind the explosion might be uncovered.

The Kataeb Lawmaker called for keeping the presidential elections sessions open until the election of a president.

Hankach considered that Hezbollah was obstructing the presidential elections sessions in a bid to impose its own president as happened in 2016 when it imposed its ally Michel Aoun.

"We, as the Kataeb Party, are against the normalizarion of the presidential vacuum," he said.

“The holding of a cabinet meeting is unconstitutional amid the presidential vacuumm,” he added.