It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

He is seen as a "weak figurehead" of the March 14th movement. The reason for Hezbollah's withdrew was that Hezbollah operatives were convicted as being responsible for the assassination of Rafiq Hariri. He then returned to Saudi Arabia where he managed part of his father's business in Riyadh until his father's assassination in 2005.

Hariri was prime minister from 9 November 2009 until the collapse of his cabinet on 12 January 2011 and has also been the leader of the Movement of the Future party since 2005. He is the second son of Rafiq Hariri the former Lebanese Prime Minister who was assassinated in 2005.