The Gemayel family, which produced several prominent Lebanese politicians, never really enjoyed nationwide support. The reason being that Sheikh Pierre Gemayel, the family’s “patriarch” founded a political party with candid sectarian overtones in 1936. Indeed, throughout Sheikh Pierre’s long leadership of the said party – called The Lebanese Phalanges – its ideological and political identities became ever more pronounced.
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/news/middle-east/2016/04/21/Sami-Gemayel-A-Lebanese-political-phenomenon.html
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