Lebanon party
Lebanese Forces
القوات اللبنانيةChristian-rooted political party led by Samir Geagea, originally a militia formed during the civil war.
- Founded
- 1976
- Current leader
- Samir Geagea
- Founders
- Bachir Gemayel
Position — compass as of 2026-06-08
First-pass hand-coded estimate; pending second-pass external review. See methodology for the rubric.
Across the dataset
Open full comparison →Nearest
Closest by average Euclidean distance across all axes.
Most divergent
Farthest by the same metric. Useful for "anti-axis" framing.
Position — all axes
Briefs about Lebanese Forces
Comparative political-science briefs pairing this party with others. 2 briefs on file.
- Lebanese Forces vs. Free Patriotic Movement LB The Christian Lebanese rift. Aoun's FPM-Hezbollah alliance against Geagea's Lebanese Forces opposition. The same Maronite political constituency split into two pro-state and anti-Hezbollah camps.
- Lebanese Forces vs. Hezbollah LB Lebanon's sharpest confessional rivalry. Hezbollah's Shia armed party-state vs the Lebanese Forces' Christian-right legacy of the civil war.
Members & affiliated figures
Politicians currently identified with this party — leaders, ministers, MPs, and other active figures. All affiliated politicians →
Associated legislation
Bills this party introduced, championed, or whose passage / blocking it's publicly associated with. Status indicates the bill's parliamentary outcome. All Lebanon bills →
Declared vs. behavioral
For the axes below, this party's declared position (what the party says in its platform / official rhetoric) diverges from its behavioral position (its record of votes, coalition choices, or public actions). The spread itself is the methodological point — capturing the gap that a single composite score collapses.
- Liberal democracy spread: 5.0D: +5.0 B: +0.0 C: +5.0
Lens spreads are currently hand-coded on a curated set of cases where the gap is well-documented. Document-grounded scoring against the party's own platform documents (declared) and its voting / coalition record (behavioral) will scale this across the dataset. See methodology for the full lens-system roadmap.
Source documents
Texts the scoring pipeline reads — manifestos, speeches, platforms. Each document's verbatim content backs the position score above; the model cites specific phrases from these texts when scoring. All documents →
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Interview English 2025-10-08 Samir Geagea (Lebanese Forces) to AFP: Hezbollah must disarm and hand its weapons to the Lebanese state (8 October 2025)
In an interview with Agence France-Presse on Tuesday, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said that the Iran-backed Hezbollah […] must learn from Hamas's experience in Gaza and hand over its weapons to the Lebanese…
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Manifesto Arabic 2012-02-17 الرؤية وقضية الحزب — حزب القوات اللبنانية (Lebanese Forces — Vision & Cause)
حزب القوات اللبنانية نشأت القّوات اللبنانيّة من عزم شابات و شبان تختزن ذواتهم قرونا" من التراث النضاليّ، صنعه آباؤهم وأجدادهم في الذود عن الأرض والكرامة والحرية والسيادة والإستقلال. حملوا السلاح مرغمين، بعد أن سقطت…
Sources
Per-field citations for the verified claims above. Other fields (notably the compass scores) remain hand-coded priors and are marked unverified until they pass the methodology pipeline — see methodology.
- founded_year en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Founded as militia 1976; registered as political party 1991
- current_leader_text en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Samir Geagea has led the party since 1986
- government_role en.wikipedia.org 2026-06-06 Largest Christian bloc and a leading opposition force
How to cite
Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.
In-text: (Gara, 2026)
Per-record citation
APA 7Reference list · academic default
Gara, T. (2026). Lebanese Forces [Party profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/lebanese-forces
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Lebanese Forces." Party profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/lebanese-forces.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers
@misc{tayyar-lebanese-forces,
title = {{Lebanese Forces}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
type = {Party profile},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/p/lebanese-forces},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
} Dataset / working-paper citation
If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.
APA 7Preprint
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
title = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
author = {Gara, Tarek},
year = {2026},
type = {Preprint},
url = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
urldate = {2026-06-21},
note = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
} First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.