The head of the Lebanese Forces party’s press office told Reuters early on Monday, that the party won at least 20 seats in the Lebanese parliamentary elections, in what is considered an important victory for the Christian faction that strongly opposes the Shiite Hezbollah.

Antoinette Geagea said that this number could rise further, and that with allies from other sects and religious parties, the Lebanese Front could form the “largest parliamentary bloc” in the 128-seat parliament.

The Lebanese Forces party, founded as an armed faction during Lebanon’s 15-year civil war, is allied with Saudi Arabia and has repeatedly called on the Iran-backed Hezbollah to give up its arsenal. The Lebanese Forces party won 15 seats in the 2018 elections.