Kataeb Lawmaker Nadim Gemayel indicated that he did not know whether Michel Aoun's farewell speech from Baabda was a president’s speech or a party leader's one.

"Michel Aoun, as always, tries to show his failure as if it was a victory. Unfortunately, since 1989 all these battles and slogans have always made the state weaker and more destructive," Gemayel said in an interview via ici beyrouth.

Gemayel stated that Aoun’s mandate did not only weaken Michel Aoun, but also the position of the presidency of the republic as well as the institutions which almost disappeared.

“I do not know what is more useful: to read a letter sent by a former president or to work on electing a new Head of State?” Gemayel commented regarding Aoun’s signature of government's resignation and sending a letter to Speaker Berri. 

Gemayel stressed that Aoun was a president trying to free himself from every defeat.

“We, the Lawmakers, have a duty to elect a new president who is exactly the opposite of Aoun, to put Lebanon on the map of democracy and achieve justice and openness to the free world,” he explained.

Gemayel considered that what Hezbollah did not know is that by destroying the state, it is destroying itself and all the Lebanese people. He pointed out that the greatest success in Michel Aoun's term was his becoming the official spokesman for Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.

"After hearing Aoun's last speech, I can only say that he can easily stand in front of this crowd and say ‘mission accomplished’,” Gemayel concluded.