Kataeb Party, Lebanese Forces and Tajadod bloc MPs in addition to Change MPs Waddah al-Sadek, Mark Daou and Michel Doueihi on Friday slammed Hezbollah’s latest military drill, saying it “provoked the majority of the Lebanese and the content of the Jeddah Arab Summit declaration.”

“Through this drill, it wanted to tell the Lebanese, Arabs and the world that its sovereignty is above that of the Lebanese state, that the state has no sovereignty over its territory, and that there can be no decision in Lebanon that defies its will and the will of the regional axis it belongs to,” the MPs said in a statement.

“Hezbollah is telling us, through this military exercise, that these arms are protecting corrupts, paralyzing the institutions of the government and parliament, preventing reform and an end to the collapse, and undermining Lebanon’s ties with the Arab and international communities,” the MPs added.

“Hezbollah’s abnormal state no longer has a place in Lebanese political life and it has become detested by the majority of the Lebanese people,” they went on to say.

Accordingly, they pointed out that “it has become confirmed that Lebanon the state cannot coexist with Lebanon the statelet.”

“Resolving this dilemma has become an urgent duty, through ending Hezbollah’s armed state and implementing the Taif Agreement and the constitution resulting from it, which stipulated dissolving militias and limiting weapons to the hands of the state and its legitimate security institutions,” the legislators added, while also calling for “implementing U.N. Security Council resolutions 1559 and 1701.”