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Pro-Hezbollah Christian leader in Lebanon eulogizes Nasrallah

By Gianluca Pacchiani 28 September 2024, 3:49 pm 16 Edit

Gianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel

In this September 9, 2015 photo, lawmaker Sleiman Frangieh prepares to enter the parliament building for the National Dialogue meeting between Lebanese political leaders, in downtown Beirut. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
In this September 9, 2015 photo, lawmaker Sleiman Frangieh prepares to enter the parliament building for the National Dialogue meeting between Lebanese political leaders, in downtown Beirut. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Sleiman Frangieh, leader of Lebanon’s Christian party Marada and Hezbollah’s candidate for the presidency, posts a laconic eulogy for slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on X. “The symbol is gone, the legend is born, the resistance continues,” Frangieh tweets.

According to the Lebanese constitution, the President must be a Maronite Christian. Despite controlling only two seats in Parliament, Frangieh has remained Hezbollah’s favored candidate. The Shiite terror group has kept Lebanon in a political deadlock for nearly two years, as it has refused to consider alternative candidates.

Walid Jumblatt, leader of the Druze “Progressive Socialist Party,” which has eight seats in the parliament, also eulogizes the slain Hezbollah leader. “Hassan Nasrallah and his comrades have joined the long caravan of martyrs on the road to Palestine. I extend my condolences to Hezbollah and its supporters and honor the souls of innocent civilians,” he writes on X and posts an image of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.

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