MP Ibrahim Kanaan emphasized on Monday the importance of “not surrendering to corruption” and to “the real majority, not the electoral majority, which meets in fateful junctures to prevent accountability and striking the system of corruption."

"Out of the womb of difficulties, opportunity is born, and from the midst of crises, hope emerges," Kanaan asserted, calling for rendering the upcoming parliamentary elections as a referendum on which Lebanon we actually aspire to live in.

Kanaan's words came during a celebration at the invitation of Jouret Al Ballout Mayor, Issam Bou Jourd, on the occasion of Independence Day, in the presence of Metn Qa’em Maqam Marleine Haddad and other Metn municipality heads.

“Every year the challenges of independence increase, as if we are in an endless battle,” he said, stressing on the determination to be born again as Lebanese citizens who will struggle from within their institutions, from within their families, villages, towns, factories, and municipalities…

“Let us unite, as we did in the past two years, at the health and social levels... in our hospitals, clinics, schools and towns... Today, let us turn every pain and challenge into an act of resistance against the bad reality of corruption, waste, subservience and quotas… Let the upcoming parliamentary elections be a real referendum for which Lebanon we want, and to give confidence to those who will rise to the challenge and the image of Lebanon that we aspire to have,” Kanaan underlined.