MP Eddy Maalouf of the “Strong Lebanon” bloc stated, “We have many questions about the investigation path of the Beirut port explosion, and about the detainees imprisoned for a year and a half, and I have question marks, but these signs do not make me close the entire country, only for the dismissal for the Judicial investigator, Judge Tarek Bitar.”

In a television interview, Maalouf stated that “in two months, no one has considered a solution for Judge Bitar in the government,” citing the fact that “whoever does not want to call for a cabinet session, nor a session to question the government, and whoever stands in his place and does not want to find a solution, he bears the responsibility for the current situation,” adding that “there is no intention to find a solution, before the parliamentary elections.”