Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said Lebanon should overcome the "deep wound" sustained during Hizbullah's attacks in May, emphasizing the need to organize parliamentary elections in 2009 even if the Shiite party maintained its weapons.

Geagea, in an interview with Future Television on Wednesday, announced that he would not be a candidate in the general elections and said the March 14 majority alliance would enter the competition with "one united ticket."

He backed calls for amending powers of the deputy prime minister through a constitutional mechanism along with amending powers of the deputy house speaker.

Geagea also warned against fabricating Christian-Sunni differences and recalled that the March 14 alliance has achieved major victories for Lebanon since it was launched in 2005.

Such victories, according to Geagea, include withdrawal of the Syrian army, creation of the international tribunal, regaining Lebanon's freedoms and the setting up of diplomatic ties with Syria, which is the outcome of patriotic Lebanese struggle that started in 1920.