Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Naim Qassem said in an interview with the Intiqad newspaper on Thursday that he expected “the Lebanese national opposition” to win the majority of seats in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

Qassem said that Hezbollah, unlike all other political forces, is “very comfortable with the progress of the electoral process in which the party would take part side by side with its allies. To achieve this, the opposition has finalized all arrangements and electoral lists, except for some unsolved details in the Jezzine and Baabda districts.”

Qassem said that “Hezbollah sacrificed its candidate in the Beirut II district, Amin Sherri, to secure the opposition’s general interests.”

He commented on the Egyptian “media campaign” after the discovery of a Hezbollah cell in Sinai two weeks ago, saying, “This campaign did not tarnish our image, on the contrary, it had showed our real image.”

Qassem confirmed that “Hezbollah’s path goes beyond the electoral battle, and it crosses domestic boundaries to regional ones, because our enemy is Israel, and we must believe that the region will be exposed to Israeli attacks in the future. This enemy understands one language, which is the language of resistance.”

-NOW Staff