Former Economy Minister Alain Hakim on Friday stressed that the Kataeb party would have preferred holding early parliamentary elections since the beginning of the October 17 Revolution, saying that its lawmakers have submitted the adoption of a new electoral law 10 days after the revolution has started.

“If the law was adopted, the country would have been in a better situation,” Hakim told Media Factory News.

“Today, the Lebanese as a whole are working on forming groups that include parties and competent people that would form an opposition front so as to go through the parliamentary elections in a bid to breach the regulations of the current ruling elite,” he said.

Hakim affirmed that preparations and meetings are ongoing so as to establish this front, saying that there are many attempts to obstruct this project.

“There is no doubt that the system is trying to prevent holding the elections but the international group that is interested in Lebanon, including the U.S., the European Union, France and Britain won’t allow the postponement of the polls,” he noted.

“Change has now become a demand to all the Lebanese. The only goal today is to reproduce power and give the people the chance to decide their own future,” he concluded.