BEIRUT – Lebanon’s Bahaa al-Hariri said that he will continue the journey of his father, the late Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, and would “enter the battle to take back” the country.
Bahaa’s younger brother, Lebanon’s veteran Sunni Muslim leader Saad al-Hariri, a three times prime minister, said earlier this week that he would not run in a forthcoming parliamentary election and was suspending his role in political life, calling on his political party to do the same.
Bahaa, 55, who has not held public office before and largely kept away from politics, said in a recorded speech sent to news outlets that he “will fight the battle to restore the country and restore the sovereignty of the country from its occupiers.”
A businessman whose interests include real estate investments in Lebanon and Jordan, Bahaa, a Lebanese-Saudi national, said that he would continue his father’s path.
“The son of the martyr Rafik Hariri will not leave Lebanon, I am with you and very soon I will be among you,” Bahaa said in his speech according to Reuters.
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