President Nasrallah?

Might as well rename Lebanon "Hezbollahland," according to the Western press

"At election time, Hezbollah and its allies regularly win the maximum number of parliamentary seats allocated to them under Lebanon's complicated and grossly unfair political system that divvies up seats among the major religious groups. If Lebanon were suddenly to liberalize its political system and hold a presidential election on the basis of one person, one vote, it's not a stretch to imagine President Hassan Nasrallah -- except that the Hezbollah leader doesn't want the job. Besides, the last two presidents were ardent supporters of Hezbollah, as were all the prime ministers before Siniora. Even Siniora himself probably supported Hezbollah's right to resist Israel in the south until its supporters started trying to force him from office." (emphasis mine)

This dodges the inconvenient fact of the Syrian occupation before 2005. Sure, all presidents and prime ministers supported Hezbollah before Siniora --and if they hadn't been, Syria would have blown them up. It's hypocritical to attack sectarianism, while describing the decades of Syrian occupation -- where their operatives worked nonstop to subvert Lebanese democracy -- as the true will of the people.

Nasrallah wouldn't come any closer to winning a free and fair Presidential election than Samir Geagea would. The sectarian system warps popular representation in Lebanon, but the fact remains that Hezbollah won only 14 seats out of 128 in the 2005 Parliamentary election. For all their weapons and external funding, their protest camp in downtown Beirut is currently nothing more than a ragged collection of tents and a few sullen kids trying to stay warm. Some majority.