Speaker Nabih Berri hit back at former Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Monday, saying that the Future Party leader should have practiced his hobby of diving rather than being involved in politics.

Speaker Nabih Berri hit back at former Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Monday, saying that the Future Party leader should have practiced his hobby of diving rather than being involved in politics.

“Hariri has revealed in his electronic interviews a number of his personal hobbies, one of which is diving,” Berri said in a statement.
“The Lebanese have also discovered a new hobby of the ‘sheikh’ which is politics. Better he dive in the former than the latter,” he added.

Earlier, Hariri told his followers on Twitter on the occasion of Eid al-Adha that he would not vote for Berri during the next elections for the speakership.
“No voting for Berri anymore if we win the election. That is a promise,” Hariri said.

The former premier also tweeted that he was practicing the hobby of diving.
“I just love to dive anywhere, it’s calm under the water, it’s beautiful and I would love to dive all around the world,” he said.

Asked by one follower: “If you had to teach something, what would you teach?”
Hariri replied: “Scuba diving in spite of Mr. Berri.”