The Lebanese Forces’ Strong Republic parliamentary bloc on Tuesday charged that “the dialogue wanted by the defiance camp is only aimed at torpedoing the Taif Agreement and the Lebanese constitution.”

In a statement, the bloc warned that such a dialogue would seek to “enshrine the one-third-plus-one veto share for a certain group in addition to the third signature on government’s decrees.”

And noting that it “does not reject dialogue as a principle,” the bloc stressed that finding solutions for crises should take place though “open-ended electoral rounds leading to the election of a new president,” not through “unconstitutional sessions carrying the dialogue label.”