The Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) has "excellent" relations with Hezbollah, PSP leader Walid Jumblatt said Wednesday after meeting with a delegation from the group, The Daily Star reported.
“Our relationship with Hezbollah is excellent” Jumblatt told reporters following the meeting at his Beirut home with a delegation headed my Mohammad Raad, the leader of the party’s bloc in parliament.
The PSP chief said that Wednesday’s meeting “was not the first” and “wouldn’t be the last."
Raad, whose party has had on-again off-again relations with Jumblatt, said that “the atmosphere [of the meeting] was positive.”
“We are looking towards opening windows that would take Lebanonout of its current gridlock” he added.
Raad also stressed on “the need to elect a new president as soon as possible.”
Both parties refused to elaborate on the discussions of the meeting.
“This meeting is private” Jumblatt said.