Ali Awad Asiri, the former Saudi ambassador to Beirut, said in an interventionist speech that Saudi Arabia was not satisfied with Lebanese sovereignty and that it was up to the Lebanese to elect loyalists in the elections.
According to the publication, the former Saudi ambassador to Beirut stated:
The whole of Lebanon is in danger, and if no elections are held and no one is elected to save Lebanon from the current situation, not only the Sunnis; Rather, all Lebanese were in danger.
In a televised interview, he said in response to a question about Saudi support for changeable parties and groups in the elections:
Saudi Arabia will not interfere in Lebanon's internal affairs and hopes that there will be a national incentive in the polls.
Ali Awad Asiri further claimed:
We do not want to see a civil war in Lebanon. The civil war will not be in the interest of Hezbollah and other Lebanese political parties; But Hezbollah's hegemony must be eliminated politically, so the Lebanese people must rise up and go to the polls.
He added:
The Lebanese people have chosen the current structure that governs Lebanon, and they must go to the polls to create a new political balance that will destroy this hegemony and restore dignity to Lebanon. Lebanon needs new faces and hopes for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
Asiri said:
Lebanon did not reach the situation it is in today, and the Lebanese living in Saudi Arabia are safe and they work like any Saudi citizen.
He stressed that the Lebanese Compensation Party is committed to Hezbollah and stressed that the Lebanese are responsible for selecting loyalists.