All "political parties" in Lebanon were feudal-style power blocs disguised as political organisations . Even within the maronites , each "capo" headed his own mafia style gang , Franjie , Jaaza and Gemayel being the most notorious . With the second (Jaaza)assasinating the son of the first (Franjie)over a hundred year old vendetta ,and at the behest of the third!!!(Gemayel) should give you an idea about the bloody mess that the lebanese politics were . Gemayel could hardly represent all the maronites , let alone all lebanese christians , who in the last stages of the civil war even fought against the maronites alongside the muslims .